diff --git a/src/Shared/LayoutRenderers/AspNetRequestUrlRenderer.cs b/src/Shared/LayoutRenderers/AspNetRequestUrlRenderer.cs
index 3ba59e115..ed0de8596 100644
--- a/src/Shared/LayoutRenderers/AspNetRequestUrlRenderer.cs
+++ b/src/Shared/LayoutRenderers/AspNetRequestUrlRenderer.cs
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 using NLog.Web.Internal;
 #if ASP_NET_CORE
 using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Http;
+using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Http.Features;
 
 #else
 using System.Collections.Specialized;
@@ -24,7 +25,7 @@ namespace NLog.Web.LayoutRenderers
     /// ${aspnet-request-url:IncludePort=true} - produces http://www.exmaple.com:80/
     /// ${aspnet-request-url:IncludePort=false} - produces http://www.exmaple.com/
     /// ${aspnet-request-url:IncludeScheme=false} - produces www.exmaple.com/
-    /// ${aspnet-request-url:IncludePort=true:IncludeQueryString=true} - produces http://www.exmaple.com:80/?t=1    
+    /// ${aspnet-request-url:IncludePort=true:IncludeQueryString=true} - produces http://www.exmaple.com:80/?t=1
     /// </code>
     /// </example>
     [LayoutRenderer("aspnet-request-url")]
@@ -37,7 +38,7 @@ public class AspNetRequestUrlRenderer : AspNetLayoutRendererBase
         public bool IncludeQueryString { get; set; } = false;
 
         /// <summary>
-        /// To specify whether to  include /exclude the Port. Default is false.
+        /// To specify whether to include / exclude the Port. Default is false.
         /// </summary>
         public bool IncludePort { get; set; } = false;
 
@@ -51,6 +52,11 @@ public class AspNetRequestUrlRenderer : AspNetLayoutRendererBase
         /// </summary>
         public bool IncludeScheme { get; set; } = true;
 
+        /// <summary>
+        /// To specify whether to use raw path and full query (for ASP.NET Core only). Default is false.
+        /// </summary>
+        public bool UseRawTarget { get; set; } = false;
+
         /// <summary>
         /// Renders the Request URL from the HttpRequest
         /// </summary>
@@ -112,11 +118,20 @@ private void RenderUrl(HttpRequest httpRequest, StringBuilder builder)
                 builder.Append(httpRequest.Host.Port.Value);
             }
 
-            builder.Append(httpRequest.PathBase.ToUriComponent());
-            builder.Append(httpRequest.Path.ToUriComponent());
-            if (IncludeQueryString)
+            IHttpRequestFeature httpRequestFeature;
+            if (UseRawTarget && (httpRequestFeature = httpRequest.HttpContext.Features.Get<IHttpRequestFeature>()) != null)
             {
-                builder.Append(httpRequest.QueryString.Value);
+                builder.Append(httpRequestFeature.RawTarget);
+            }
+            else
+            {
+                builder.Append(httpRequest.PathBase.ToUriComponent());
+                builder.Append(httpRequest.Path.ToUriComponent());
+
+                if (IncludeQueryString)
+                {
+                    builder.Append(httpRequest.QueryString.Value);
+                }
             }
         }
 #endif
diff --git a/tests/Shared/LayoutRenderers/AspNetRequestUrlRendererTests.cs b/tests/Shared/LayoutRenderers/AspNetRequestUrlRendererTests.cs
index 6752d8290..96f703581 100644
--- a/tests/Shared/LayoutRenderers/AspNetRequestUrlRendererTests.cs
+++ b/tests/Shared/LayoutRenderers/AspNetRequestUrlRendererTests.cs
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 using Microsoft.Extensions.Primitives;
 using HttpContextBase = Microsoft.AspNetCore.Http.HttpContext;
 using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Http;
+using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Http.Features;
 #endif
 using NLog.Web.LayoutRenderers;
 using NSubstitute;
@@ -147,7 +148,30 @@ public void UrlPresentRenderNonEmpty_ExcludeHost_IncludeQueryString()
             Assert.Equal("http:///Test.asp?t=1", result);
         }
 
-        private static AspNetRequestUrlRenderer CreateRenderer(string hostBase, string queryString = "", string scheme = "http", string page = "/", string pathBase = "")
+        [Fact]
+        public void UrlPresentRenderNonEmpty_UseRawTarget()
+        {
+            var renderer = CreateRenderer("www.google.com:80", "?t=1", "http", "/Test.asp", rawTarget: "raw");
+            renderer.UseRawTarget = true;
+
+            string result = renderer.Render(LogEventInfo.CreateNullEvent());
+
+            Assert.Equal("http://raw", result);
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void UrlPresentRenderNonEmpty_UseRawTarget_IncludeQueryString()
+        {
+            var renderer = CreateRenderer("www.google.com:80", "?t=1", "http", "/Test.asp", rawTarget: "raw");
+            renderer.UseRawTarget = true;
+            renderer.IncludeQueryString = true;
+
+            string result = renderer.Render(LogEventInfo.CreateNullEvent());
+
+            Assert.Equal("http://raw", result);
+        }
+
+        private static AspNetRequestUrlRenderer CreateRenderer(string hostBase, string queryString = "", string scheme = "http", string page = "/", string pathBase = "", string rawTarget = null)
         {
             var (renderer, httpContext) = CreateWithHttpContext();
 
@@ -160,8 +184,36 @@ private static AspNetRequestUrlRenderer CreateRenderer(string hostBase, string q
             httpContext.Request.QueryString.Returns(new QueryString(queryString));
             httpContext.Request.Host.Returns(new HostString(hostBase));
             httpContext.Request.Scheme.Returns(scheme);
+
+            if (rawTarget != null)
+            {
+                var httpRequestFeature = new HttpRequestFeatureMock();
+                httpRequestFeature.RawTarget = rawTarget;
+                httpContext.Features.Get<IHttpRequestFeature>().Returns(httpRequestFeature);
+            }
 #endif
             return renderer;
         }
+
+#if ASP_NET_CORE
+
+        private class HttpRequestFeatureMock : IHttpRequestFeature
+        {
+            #region Implementation of IHttpRequestFeature
+
+            public Stream Body { get; set; }
+            public IHeaderDictionary Headers { get; set; }
+            public string Method { get; set; }
+            public string Path { get; set; }
+            public string PathBase { get; set; }
+            public string Protocol { get; set; }
+            public string QueryString { get; set; }
+            public string RawTarget { get; set; }
+            public string Scheme { get; set; }
+
+            #endregion Implementation of IHttpRequestFeature
+        }
+
+#endif
     }
 }