log4net

How to stop log4net from writing to two separate files

I'm using the below log4net configuration. I'm trying to write performance logs to a separate file but the output is going to both files. Even though I'm specifiying: private static readonly log4net.ILog log = log4net.LogManager.GetLogger("PerformanceMetricsLogger"); How do I stop log4net from writing to the default appender in this...

How to get log4net to work with Chainsaw on local machine

I would like to use log4net's UdpAppender with Apache Chainsaw to log messages from my ASP.NET web application. I followed instructions on log4net's website, but no Udp packets are sent (firewall is turned off, and I tried to monitor my machine with TcpView - no udp packets were generated at all; other appenders re working). Log4net debu...

log4net console app not logging on publish

I have a console app using log4net (via Castle Windsor). Everything logs fine to the console when I debug, but when I publish and run the app, nothing is logged. I have my log4net configuration in a separate file (log4net.config). I'm thinking it's not finding the config file, but that's just a guess. I'm a web dev and haven't deploye...

Debugging an ADO log4net appender (that won't append)

I've had this working before, but now it's not working and I've been tearing my hair out for the past two hours trying to figure it out. I have several appenders, where some are for a "main" log, and another is for another "task" log. The main log has 4 appenders: console, memory, file, and DB (sqlite3). The task log has 3 appenders: ...

Log4net does not write the log file

I created a simple szenario using Log4net, but it seems that my appenders does not work because the messages are not added to the logfile. I added the following to the web.config file: <configSections> <section name="log4net" type="log4net.Config.Log4NetConfigurationSectionHandler, log4net" requirePermission="false"/> </con...

Log4Net problem on IIS 7.5 in Windows Server 2008

I have a WCF service running on Windows 2008 R2 64 bit, using IIS 7.5. My appender is logging to a local file, and on my XP workstation a log file is being created in the application folder. Log4NEt is not logging anything on the server. I have tried the following: Ensured that my application pool is running as a domain user account...

Log4net traceappender not logging anything

I'd like to redirect everything logged by log4net to the System.Diagnostics Trace classes. My understanding of what I should be doing is pointing log4net at system.diagnostics.traceappender, then I configure system.diagnostics. Here's important parts in my web.config: <log4net> <appender name="trace" type="log4net.Appender.TraceAppender...

Is it possible to write to an event log contained in a folder using log4net?

The goal is to have our application specific event logs in a folder with the name of our company. So, Company/App1, Company/App2. I would prefer to accomplish this with configuration, or with very little code. I tried setting logName to "MyFolder/MyLog" to no avail. Example of a folder in event viewer, reference the Microsoft folder ...

Log4Net - RollingFileAppender, after it rolls, it doesnt append anymore

I have a rolling file appender and every night it rolls the file. However, when it rolls it, the new file only has one log entry. It seems that file is not appending log entries anymore. If I restart the service it logs correctly. Here are my settings: <appender name="RollingLogFileAppender" type="log4net.Appender.RollingFileAppender"> ...

Log4Net - Logging out the Exception stacktrace only for certain files

I currently have multiple log files in my application using log4net. I have a top level log file which contains every type of message. I also have an error log file which contains only error information. I am trying to configure it so the specific exception details and stack trace only appear in the error log file. The call i am usin...

Log4Net config problems

Hi, So I've got a website and a console app that runs daily. They both call a Function called ProcessIncident(). The website allows you to do it manually for an individual incident and the console app does a batch every night. Within the function I have various log4net Log.InfoFormat() and Log.DebugFormat() calls When I run from the ...

Any one know of any good log summary/monitoring tools

I'm looking for a (preferable) opens source tool that gives me daily/hourly summaries of log files. It have multiple log files on multiple machines and I would like a email every day with a list of all the error for each of these. Does anyone know if there is something like that out there. We had one at my previous Job but it was built i...

(Why) is log4net not under development anymore?

Looking at this seems to hint, that log4net is not really under development anymore. Is that true? Why so? I'd think there actually is room for improvements/new features. Things like .NET 4.0, fluent configuration or WCF come into mind. What's the story here? ...

Using log4net to create logfiles that can be viewed with SvcTraceViewer.exe

What is the best way to log to a file using log4net that has the correct format (correct XML, correct timestamp format, custom data in correct format, correct attributes, basically the exact same way as XmlWriterTraceListener does it) so it can be viewed in the Service Trace Viewer Tool (SvcTraceViewer.exe)? ...

log4net performance: should i check log level before trying to log?

Would you expect better performance from A) or B) below if log level in the log4net config is set to Info level? Will _log.Debug on its own execute more code and take longer? A) if(_log.IsDebugEnabled) _log.Debug("some message"); B) _log.Debug("some message"); ...

Log4Net doesn't write when iis hosting WCF service

Log4Net doesn't write when iis hosting a WCF Service. it works great when i use the self hosting ( Visual Studio Development Server), but when i run it using the IIS it doesn't write anything. i read about this prolem and the conclusion is that it must be a permission problem, but i don't know how to solve it. how can i check that i ...

Logging and WCF

I have seen many other questions on logging. Best practices. What logging platform is best. Etc. Here are some links from here on SO with very good discussions on the topic: logging best practices log4net vs TraceSource best logging solution for .NET 3.5 project .NET 3.5 logging BEGIN EDIT: Having typed this long post, I guess t...

NHibernate, Log query execution time?

Hi! I configured Nhibernate and log4net to log queries executed by nhibernate. Is there any way to log each query execution time? ...

log4net and Sharepoint 2007 Workflow

I'm working on a project with some custom Sharepoint Workflow components which I'd like to add log4net to. I'm really struggling to get log4net to output anything at all though! Here's my current setup: In the codebehind for my Workflow: private ILog log; public MessageQueueWorkflow() { InitializeComponent(); string filepat...

Configuring log4net in a VSTO

I've set up my VSTO Excel add-in to use log4net for logging. Unfortunately I'm (seemingly) not able to make it configure itself from the app.config (which I deliver together with the add-in via ClickOnce). I have read http://www.darinhiggins.com/?p=13 which lists some ways to get the file name of the app.config and then configure log4ne...