Option to add nuget package greyed out
I have setup my ELK stack locally and am attempting to log to logstash to push my logs to Kabana through my automation. Is there a standard way to do this in pega robotics? I have read articles that require utilization of Serilog to configure the logger to be sent to logstash. I am using 8.0.2021 on VS2015, but my option to add a nuget package to install this package is greyed out. When i open the project for first time, I do get an error msg when selecting "Manage Nuget Package" on solution ERROR: "No projects supported by Nuget in solution" . It then greys out that option entirely. Am I missing something here?
Pegasystems Inc.
US
@SaadS205 I don't believe you can use Nuget with a Pega Robotics project as it isn't a traditional .Net project (I certainly have never been able to). I have not heard of any customers writing logs to "Kabana" or using "logstash". If you can acquire the assemblies required though, you can add them as a reference. If you do use third-party assemblies with Studio though, make sure you place them either in the installation directory or in %AppData%\Pegasystems\PublicAssemblies. You might also be able to use Log4Net to write somewhere as that is one of the available publishers you can enable and configure in the RuntimeConfig.xml.
Pegasystems Inc.
GB
Hi @SaadS205,
Pega Robotics logs are based on log4Net and you can add any log4Net appender (Thanks @jeffbadger ). You can simply add the required libraries if any and declare the appender in your RuntimeConfig.xml. You could replace the current appender or add a new one.
You could check this article for guidance https://www.ben-morris.com/using-logstash-elasticsearch-and-log4net-for-centralized-logging-in-windows/ on the general topic.
I did a quick search and you could use something like this https://gist.github.com/junxy/206150421f568e65a2a2b006cb8811e9
On a separate topic, have you considered upgrading your Robot Runtime to a later version?, version 8 is very old.