How do I email errors logged with NLog? [closed]
Change your encoding from UTF8 to UTF-8. Assuming there are no other errors in your SMTP settings (which is usually the cause of messages not being sent), it should work.
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Where is ${basedir} located, using NLog?
${basedir} — Directory where the application runs, aka. AppDomain.BaseDirectory I think, you will find this manual page helpful.
How to get NLog to write to database
Try putting the following in your nlog tag: <nlog throwExceptions=”true” internalLogFile=”c:\nlog.txt” internalLogLevel=”Debug” /> That might help determine what the problem is
How to retain callsite information when wrapping NLog
The problem is that your wrapper is not wrapping correctly. Here is an example of how to wrap NLog correctly, taken directly from the source tree of NLog: using System; using System.Text; using NLog; namespace LoggerWrapper { /// <summary> /// Provides methods to write messages with event IDs – useful for the Event Log target. … Read more
Use NLog in ASP.NET Core application
For ASP.NET Core, you need NLog.Web.AspNetCore – which has a dependency on NLog.Extensions.Logging. Note: Microsoft.Framework.Logging.NLog has been replaced by NLog.Extensions.Logging on NuGet, which is maintained by the NLog team. How to use: Setup NLog needs to be enabled so it will integrate into the DI and log API of ASP.NET Core. This will result that … Read more
When should I use Tracing vs Logger.NET, Enterprise Library, log4net or Ukadc.Diagnostics?
There are many similar questions here on SO: Logging best practices log4net versus TraceSource Silverlight Logging framework and/or best practices log4net vs. Nlog What’s the point of a logging facade? C# Logging. What should I use? You missed several commonly used logging frameworks. Here is a list of commonly used frameworks, some of which you … Read more
NLog: How to exclude specific loggers from a specific rule?
I think something like this is what you want: <logger name=”SpammyLogger” minlevel=”Off” maxlevel=”Trace” final=”true” /> <logger name=”SpammyLogger” minlevel=”Debug” maxlevel=”Fatal” writeTo=”SpammyFileTarget” final=”true” /> <logger name=”*” levels=”Trace” writeTo=”RegularFileTarget/” /> Adding final=”true” means that no more rules will be executed for the events produced by “SpammyLogger”, but it applies only to the specified levels.(see https://github.com/nlog/nlog/wiki/Configuration-file#rules) See this link … Read more
Global exception handling in ASP.NET Web API 2.1 with NLog?
It’s actually quite simple, you either implement IExceptionLogger by hand or inherit from the base class, ExceptionLogger. public class NLogExceptionLogger : ExceptionLogger { private static readonly Logger Nlog = LogManager.GetCurrentClassLogger(); public override void Log(ExceptionLoggerContext context) { Nlog.LogException(LogLevel.Error, RequestToString(context.Request), context.Exception); } private static string RequestToString(HttpRequestMessage request) { var message = new StringBuilder(); if (request.Method != null) … Read more
Delete log files after x days
You could simply use the built-in archiving functionality. This setting will keep 7 old log files in addition to your current log. The cleanup is done by NLog automatically. <?xml version=”1.0″ ?> <nlog xmlns=”http://www.nlog-project.org/schemas/NLog.xsd” xmlns:xsi=”http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance”> <targets> <target name=”file” xsi:type=”File” layout=”${longdate} ${logger} ${message}” fileName=”${basedir}/logs/logfile.txt” archiveFileName=”${basedir}/logs/log.{#}.txt” archiveEvery=”Day” archiveNumbering=”Rolling” maxArchiveFiles=”7″ concurrentWrites=”true” /> </targets> <rules> <logger name=”*” minlevel=”Debug” writeTo=”file” … Read more
Logging in multiple files using NLog
I think you need to define another logger. <logger name=”SpecialLogger” minlevel=”Trace” writeTo=”logfile2″ /> To log to it: var logger = LogManager.GetLogger(“SpecialLogger”);