Sitecore uses Log4Net for it’s logging framework, so it comes with a whole slew of different ‘appenders’, suitable for logging to various repositories. That’s nice, but what if there’s a target you want to use that doesn’t exist?

Well, you can override the SitecoreLogFileAppender and write your own output:

What else could you do with this? Well, writing to App Insights seems like a good bet.