RavenDB 7.0 Released: Moving to NLog

One of the “minor” changes in RavenDB 7.0 is that we moved from our own in-house logging system to using NLog. I looked at my previous blog posts, and I found the blog post outlining the rationale for the decision to use our own logging infrastructure from 2016. At the time, no other logging framework was able to sustain the kind of performance that we required. The .NET community has come a long way since then, and it has become clear that we need to revisit this decision. Performance has a much higher priority, and the API at all levels supports that (spans, avoiding allocations, etc).The move to NLog gives users a much simpler way to integrate RavenDB logs into their monitoring & observability pipeline. You can read about the new NLog feature in our blog.We also spent time making the logs view inside the RavenDB Studio nicer, taking advantage of the new capabilities we now expose:Hopefully, you won’t need to dig too deeply into the logs, but it is now easier than ever to use them.

Mar 7, 2025 - 13:21

One of the “minor” changes in RavenDB 7.0 is that we moved from our own in-house logging system to using NLog. I looked at my previous blog posts, and I found the blog post outlining the rationale for the decision to use our own logging infrastructure from 2016.

At the time, no other logging framework was able to sustain the kind of performance that we required. The .NET community has come a long way since then, and it has become clear that we need to revisit this decision. Performance has a much higher priority, and the API at all levels supports that (spans, avoiding allocations, etc).

The move to NLog gives users a much simpler way to integrate RavenDB logs into their monitoring & observability pipeline.

You can read about the new NLog feature in our blog.

We also spent time making the logs view inside the RavenDB Studio nicer, taking advantage of the new capabilities we now expose:

Hopefully, you won’t need to dig too deeply into the logs, but it is now easier than ever to use them.