From c6f6066b032ba650bc31bcabea93f75118963c3c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: John Luo <jt.luo@mail.utoronto.ca>
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2016 14:55:58 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Elevate application starup errors to be logged as critical
 #612

---
 .../Internal/HostingLoggerExtensions.cs                         | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Hosting/Internal/HostingLoggerExtensions.cs b/src/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Hosting/Internal/HostingLoggerExtensions.cs
index e296d331ae..5f9ded971f 100644
--- a/src/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Hosting/Internal/HostingLoggerExtensions.cs
+++ b/src/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Hosting/Internal/HostingLoggerExtensions.cs
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ namespace Microsoft.AspNetCore.Hosting.Internal
 
         public static void ApplicationError(this ILogger logger, Exception exception)
         {
-            logger.LogError(
+            logger.LogCritical(
                 eventId: LoggerEventIds.ApplicationStartupException,
                 message: "Application startup exception",
                 exception: exception);