How to create a LoggerFactory with a ConsoleLoggerProvider?

In .NET Core 2.2, you can build an ILoggerFactory without using obsolete methods through Microsoft's dependency injection framework. It's a little less verbose than the version where everything is constructed by hand. Here’s how:

using Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection;
using Microsoft.Extensions.Logging;

IServiceCollection serviceCollection = new ServiceCollection();
serviceCollection.AddLogging(builder => builder
    .AddConsole()
    .AddFilter(level => level >= LogLevel.Information)
);
var loggerFactory = serviceCollection.BuildServiceProvider().GetService<ILoggerFactory>();

And in .NET Core 3.0, you can use LoggerFactory.Create:

var loggerFactory = LoggerFactory.Create(builder => {
        builder.AddFilter("Microsoft", LogLevel.Warning)
               .AddFilter("System", LogLevel.Warning)
               .AddFilter("SampleApp.Program", LogLevel.Debug)
               .AddConsole();
    }
);

See also:

• Migrate from Microsoft.Extensions.Logging 2.1 to 2.2 or 3.0

Just in case, if someone wants to do it in ASP.NET Core composition root for efcore:

services.AddDbContext<DbContext>(opt => {
    opt.AddSqlServer(Configuration.GetConnectionString("DefaultConnection"));
    opt.UseLoggerFactory(LoggerFactory.Create(builder => { builder.AddConsole(); }));
});