ASP.NET Web API logging with TextWriterTraceListener…

Update Web.config to this form:

<appSettings>
    <add key="defaultTraceSourceName" value="my-source" />
</appSettings>
<system.diagnostics>
    <sources>
        <source name="my-source">
            <listeners>
                <add name="fileLogListener" />
                <remove name="Default" />
            </listeners>
        </source>
    </sources>
    <sharedListeners>
        <add name="fileLogListener"
            initializeData="\\MyServer\logFiles\My.log"
            type="System.Diagnostics.TextWriterTraceListener"
            />
    </sharedListeners>
</system.diagnostics>

Install NuGet package Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi.Tracing.

Add this line to WebApiConfig.Register():

config.EnableSystemDiagnosticsTracing();

Also the information in “Compiling Conditionally with Trace and Debug” may apply.

https://github.com/BryanWilhite/