Small issue with compact

[fox-infonote]

Hi, think I have found a small bug with version 2.0

I upgrade and added compact to target setting it to false.

The logs on Slack only showed Process name and PID. Tried removing compact and got the same result.

When I set the compact value to true the layout data appeared with out the Process name and PID.

Had a look at the code and but can't see an obvious cause for this.

My target look like this.

<target xsi:type= "Slack
name="Slack_Warn"
layout="${longdate}|${level:uppercase=true}${Environment} ${logger} ${message} ${exception:format=tostring}"
webHookUrl="https://hooks.slack.com/services/restofurl" compact="true" />

so don't have the fields you show in your example .. is that the issue ?

[TimothyRatliff]

I'm having this same issue (logs on slack only show PID/process name), except I'm configuring the Slack target through code.

            var slackTarget = new SlackTarget
            {
                // Name = "slackTarget",
                Layout = "${message}",
                WebHookUrl = configuration.GetSection("JsonConfigurations").GetValue<String>("webHookUrl"),
                Compact = false,
            };
            config.AddTarget("slack", slackTarget);

Whenever I change Compact to true, the actual message content goes through.

I don't seem to have this issue when using nlog.config to configure the Slack target. Unfortunately, I have to use code to configure the target because I'm passing in variables from appsettings.json. So this isn't a viable work-around for me.

@fox-infonote did you try setting the field names inside your nlog.config? Here's my nlog.config that sends the full message content:

    <target xsi:type="Slack"
            name="slackTarget"
            layout="${message}"
            webHookUrl="url"
            compact="false">

      <field name="Machine Name" layout="${machinename}" />
      <field name="Process Name" layout="${processname}" />
      <field name="Process PID" layout="${processid}" />
      <field name="DateTime" layout="${longdate}" />
    </target>
    
  </targets>

Tagging @eth0izzle in hopes of a response :)