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Correlating and Grepping Logs with PowerShell
I've spent the last few days doing a post-mortem on a colossal system failure at a client site. We have plenty of data on the failure, in the form of log4net application logs and Windoze event logs,...
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A Look at the Live Labs Simple Logging Framework
Earlier this week Scott Hanselman tweeted a link to the MS Live Labs Simple Logging Framework (SLF). I thought I'd check it out and post some comparisons to log4net for posterity. Note this isn't a...
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Extension Methods for Deferred Log4Net Message Formatting
In a recent post I described some initial impressions of the MS Live Labs Simple Logging Framework (SLF). One of the things I really like about SLF is the use of lambas as a way to defer execution of...
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Log4Net Recommended Practices pt 2: Isolating Bugs
I realize it's been a while since I've written about logging, but my experiences this morning compelled me to share. The muse for this post was a very simple bug located in a rat's nest of complexity....
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Log4Net Tutorials and Resources
I've been meaning to create a landing page for all the log4net traffic on my blog. A friend of mine recently told me how difficult it is to drill through all the tutorials, so I decided to organize...
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Death by Logging Mantra #1 - Logs Consume Space
As much as I love and lean on logging, it's not immune from problems. In fact, it can be the source of some serious headaches. A recent snafu at work prompted me to write about some situations where...
View ArticleTwitter Appender for Log4Net
Casey Watson just published a post describing how to create a Twitter appender for log4net! Not only is the idea creative and fun, but it's also great sample code if you want to build your own custom...
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Log4Net Hack: Customizing Log File Paths After Configuration
I get a lot of log4net questions through my blog because of the tutorials I've written up. One item that comes up frequently is how to configure a FileAppender to be able to write a single log file...
View Articlemongodb log4net appender
Hey everybody!Just wanted to let you know about this little gem, in case you’re having the same love affair with document databases that I am at the moment…Jozef Sevcik has generously released an...
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log4net Pluralsight Course
I get a fair amount of traffic on this blog, and most of it is aimed at the set of log4net tutorials I’ve posted over the years. I’m pleased to announce that as of today, all of this log4net knowledge...
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