Logging within Program.cs
Accidentally stumbled upon the answer after googling a bit more. using System; using Microsoft.Extensions.Logging; namespace ConsoleApplication { public class Program { public static void Main(string[] args) { var logFactory = new LoggerFactory() .AddConsole(LogLevel.Debug) .AddDebug(); var logger = logFactory.CreateLogger<Type>(); logger.LogInformation(“this is debug log”); } } } Kudos to https://askguanyu.wordpress.com/2016/09/26/net-core-101-e06-net-core-logging/