What is a good enterprise wide logging + notification solution?

Question

(Microsoft environment)

I've been asked to look into replacing our current logging solution : MS Enterprise Library, with something else.

We are trying to find something that is not just a "logging" solution, rather we would like to find something that would let us monitor the status of many processes taking place, not just capturing logging messages(such as Exceptions) from in-house applications.

Our dream product would allow "messages" to be sent to a single point. These messages would then be checked to see if any alerts or notifications should be sent out. We would also like to have a good UI for monitoring and analyzing issues.

I guess it would end up being something like a consolidated logging/monitoring dashboard system.

Is there anything close to this out there?

Edit:

MSEL : we have recently run into 3rd party components that have require us to either use a specific version of the library, or not use it at all. Also we dislike the amount of "bloat" required to use just a small piece of the library.

Answer 1

Have you looked at Log4Net? This page lists some features.

Some of the cool parts are that

• you can log anything, not just exceptions.
• you can record the log data in a database, event log, email, message queue or wherever you want. That should enable aggregating the log data in a dashboard.
• configuration can be changed on the fly, so that, for example, you can turn on "verbose" logging for a while, and then turn it off without recompiling or restarting the app.
• lots of developers have used it, so it's familiar to us.
• it's a lot lighter-weight in terms of resource use than EntLib.

You can see a lot of questions and discussions here in SO by using its tag.

Answer 2

Not sure if this fits your needs or not. Look at this logging framework. And look at this service for receiving/viewing logs from multiple sources (logging framework independent).