Storing error numbers and message text centrally

Question

I'm currently re-organising our collection of around 6 windows services which includes bolstering their robustness and error logging.

We have a new central service manager where our services can phone home and also raise events which in turn can be farmed out to relevant technical contacts if needs be.

What I want to do is centralise error/information messages with a severity, code, and message text. I will also then be able to further document any error codes I see fit.

Is there a particular approach that I should be using to achieve this, I've tried searching around but I can't find any best practice (though it's possible I'm not searching for the correct thing).

EDIT:

To be clear, I'm not talking about how I long an event, I'm talking about where do I store event definitions.

So for example an exception might have an error code, message and severity. Where can I store that information centrally so that it can be used by multiple services.

Answer 1

Well , there are no of ways

1- Create a database table to store logging information.

2- Log into system event logs (it will be system specific)

3- Create a Shared file in which different services can log (though it would require some synchronization code)