Thomas Ardal

Serilog is often referred to as the new logging framework on the .NET platform, while NLog is considered "the old one" (together with log4net). With Serilog introduced back in 2013 and NLog in 2006, they both have a long history and a great community around them. I have ...

Some of you may remember that we had a special program for Microsoft BizSpark members. Since Microsoft pulled the plug on that, we took some time reevaluating what to offer going forward. Today, we are ready to reveal our new program simply called elmah.io for Startups. As a member ...

In my previous post, Individual developer settings in ASP.NET Core, I showed you how to create per-developer settings using Windows environment variables. While environment variables are both fast to produce and script friendly, there is a better approach available in ASP.NET Core called User Secrets. Unlike environment variables, ...

Welcome to the second part of the series about Debugging common .NET exceptions. The series is my attempt to demystify common exceptions as well as to provide actual help fixing each exception. In this post, I take a look at one of the more tricky exceptions to fix: System.OutOfMemoryException. ...

So, you started using ASP.NET Core and love the new hierarchical JSON-based settings. But now you realize that you need individual settings per developer on your team. In this post, I will show you the best way to achieve just that. Let's start by looking at settings ...

It's time for a new face here at elmah.io. We are continuously improving our advisory board (remember Simon and Peter?). Today, I want to introduce you to the recent addition: Meet Kenneth Auchenberg. Kenneth doesn't need much introduction since he is already a familiar face ...

Like last year, we've asked our users for feedback. This is a summary of the responses we've received. We switched from a range of 5 possible answers to the more standardized Customer Effort Score (CES), consisting of 7 different answers from 1 to 7. This makes ...

Since writing this post, we have launched elmah.io Heartbeats. ASP.NET Core Health Checks now integrates seamlessly with Heartbeats. Check out Logging heartbeats from ASP.NET Core for more information. We just published a new integration between ASP.NET Core and elmah.io. As you already know, elmah.io ...

How many conferences do you attend each year? Probably not more that one. While great fun, attending conferences is often time-consuming and just the fact that you are not coding scares some bosses away. Luckily, most conferences tape sessions and make them publicly available a month or two after the ...