logging

Could someone give me a "hello world" example of logging in ASP.NET?

I'm trying to get a bare-bones example of logging going in my ASP.NET application. I would like to use the My.Log functionality to write out error log messages to a text log file. I have tried several things via Google but none of them seem to work. In general, when I use any of the properties of My.Log.DefaultFileWriter in the code it s...

Where & How Castle Windsor sets up logging facility

Hi guys I'm fairly new to Castle Windsor and am looking into the in's and out's of the logging facility. It seems fairly impressive but the only thing i can't work out is where Windsor sets the Logger property on my classes. As in the following code will set Logger to the nullLogger if the class hasn't been setup yet but when Resolve is...

Splitting log files by date or file size in Lighttpd.

So far the only way I've found to do this is by telling Lighty to pipe its logs through an app called "vlogger". Is there a way to break out log files by date without introducing any external dependencies or cron jobs? I feel like there might be a way to do it with config file variables, but my Lighty-fu just isn't strong enough. Edit...

SharePoint and deployment of global.asax code

I want to start logging some custom messages into the ULS from my custom SharePoint code. My code is running inside list item receivers attached to some lists. I'd like to configure this logging mechanism within the application start event handler in global.asax. What's the best-practices way to deploy a SharePoint solution package th...

Practices for Logging in a desktop application

Hi, We are developing a desktop application(visual basic 6.0).We have our own logging framework. What are good practices? When we have a web application, then we can control the level of logging. How to go about in a desktop app? ...

What is the best Event Log viewer for windows 2003 server?

I'm Looking for a free or open source Event Log viewer on windows 2003 server with these capabilities 1.Remote log view 2.Filter and search 3.Popup notification of a new Log entry in windows Taskbar any recommendations? ...

How to log XML SOAP messages (Request and Response) to SQL Database?

In my web application, I need to log all the SOAP messages to my SQL 2005 database whenever I make a web service call to my business partners' web service. How do I accomplish that? Thanks in Advance, Tony ...

Reflecting local variables

I'm trying to find a way to automate some exception logging code to add to the stack information already available. Is there any way to use reflection to retrieve the values of all variables on the stack (locals and parameters) - I sincerely doubt the names of the variables are available, but in many cases it would be useful to see the ...

What style do you use for exception messages?

In writing the code that throws the exception I asked about here, I came to the end of my message, and paused at the punctuation. I realized that nearly every exception message I've ever thrown probably has a ! somewhere. throw new InvalidOperationException("I'm not configured correctly!"); throw new ArgumentNullException("You passed a...

How disable SQL Server jdbc driver logging from a java application?

When I change the application log level to FINE, SQL Servers log also uses it, and, as consequence, I get a lot of unnecessary log messages. How can I turn off SQL Server log messages? ...

Eclipse RCP client and redirecting the console to a file

I'm running an Eclipse RCP application. I've enabled the flags -console -consolelog -debug and now it's humming along logging to it's console. However, I'd like it to log to a file. If I start the application from within the Eclipse IDE, I can select a file for it to redirect the console to. There must be some equivalent flag och proper...

Log4Net or Logging Application Block

I need a logging framework in my application. I have two candidates: Log4Net and Logging from Application Block. Which is better? any specific advantage to any of them? Thanks ...

What is the best way to add user ID to RubyOnRails log entries?

I am looking for the best way to customize my Rails log entries (I want to add the user ID in there). I am using Rails 2.1.2. The only way I've found so far is to override method "add" of class BufferedLogger (as defined in active_support/lib/active_support). But it ain't pretty: I have to copy all the code in there and it is closely ...

Is there a convenient way to do analytics of a servlet?

Traditional logfile analytics tools (awstats, statcounter) or general web analytics (google analytics, yahoo web analytics) are not suitable for analyzing traffic on servlets. Is there a good alternative to log messages using a logging framework (log4j for example) and to write a custom analytics software for these? ...

Logging for JBoss 3.2.5 J2EE Client

I'm trying to find out why a J2EE client ( stand alone Java program that uses jbossall-client.jar) is failing to connect to a J2EE Server so it would be good to enable logging that occurs from with JBoss classes such as org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContext - presume theres a config file I can set up ? Just for info this is the actual except...

JMS queue logging/browsing for all messages (invisible consumer for queue) (OpenJMS)

Hi, do you have idea, if there would be some nice way to browse/log JMS queues? (I'm using OpenJMS) For topics I can just add one consumer more and that's about it but with queues I haven't finished with a solution yet. I would like to log all the messages in certain queues and topics without "popping" them from the queue (so that the ...

100% Code Coverage with logging code?

After writing new methods and unit tests for them I usually check the code coverage using the Agitar Eclipse plugin. But additionally to business logic there's a lot of logging code like: if(log.isDebugEnabled()) { log.debug("Angela Merkel is REALLY hot!"); } When Agitar checks this code, it (of course) complains about the fact, that...

How do I make log4j clear a log at startup?

I want the log to roll over as long as the application is running, but I want the log to start fresh when the application is restarted. Updated: Based on erickson's feedback, my appender looks like this: <appender name="myRFA" class="org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender"> <param name="File" value="my-server.log"/> <param...

What guidelines do you adhere to for writing good logging statements

I recently found a log statement in my projects codebase that says "here i am with search parameter==>===========11/30/2008===1====00:00 AM" what guidelines do you adhere to for writing good log messages in an application? ...

Intercepting requests in the ASP.NET MVC Framework...

Is it possible to intercept requests in the ASP.NET MVC Framework (beta 1) in order to interact and inspect them? I need to attach some logging and in some cases dynamically work out if the URL needs authorizing (like applying the Authorize attribute - but at run-time). ...