Thanks for the reply! NLog's configuration story is certainly impressive; I think the differences in approach make them hard to compare directly on some of these however (for example, most sinks based on network I/O do asynchronous batching by default in Serilog).

Just on the topic of console output, you might enjoy the "literate console" - https://nblumhardt.com/2015/06/contender-for-nets-prettiest-... - for a different take on colored console output :-)

Cheers!