Searching your logs has been a key feature since we launched elmah.io. In fact, missing search capabilities in files and ELMAH (the open-source project), was the main driver for me to start coding elmah.io back in 2013. elmah.io is built on top of Elasticsearch, which makes full-text ...
Thomas Ardal
Meet Thomas, the founder and developer behind elmah.io. Thomas blogs about everything technical from C# and ASP.NET Core to machine learning.
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How to read a file with C#/.NET - Avoid the common mistakes
Time for another post in the series about solving common tasks with C#/.NET. For today's post, I'll dig into the challenge of reading a file. A lot of developers only know and use the File.ReadAllText method, which is perfectly valid for small, short files. ...
New Advisor at elmah.io: Simon Langli
Time for a new face here at elmah.io. This time I want to introduce you to a person, that you probably never will get a chance to meet: Simon Langli. We are nerds at elmah.io and don't know a lot about sales and marketing (why we ...
List of the Best Free Visual Studio Extensions
Visual Studio is a great development environment. But with a few extensions, it will be even better. There's a lot of free extensions out there, that will improve the experience of writing code and even help you reduce bugs too. We have collected a list of the best ...
SSL certificate checks and new Uptime Monitoring emails
If you feel like we've given you the silent treatment over the last couple of weeks, it's simply because we have been coding all day long. Today, we are ready to introduce the next chapter in elmah.io Uptime Monitoring. Actually, we want to introduce two ...
Migrating to the options pattern in the client for ASP.NET Core
We just released a new version of our integration for ASP.NET Core. The new package follow the pattern around configuring other pieces of middleware more closely. The old method is still available, but marked as obsolete. By switching to the new API, you will get an improved configuration flow ...
Increasing storage at same low cost
We are proud to be able to constantly add new features to elmah.io, without making the product more expensive. While we have kept our prices steady over the last 4 years, elmah.io changed a lot during that time. Once again, we are happy to announce even more free ...
Delete messages in bulk
The most sought-after feature on elmah.io has been deleting messages in bulk. Although we would've liked to offer this feature in the past, it has not been possible. So far, we have counted logged messages by looking at how many errors are actually stored. To make sure ...
Exporting data from elmah.io
A common request through the elmah.io support is: how do I export my data? The reasons for exporting data may be: * Import into Excel or similar for custom processing and graphing. * Backup of old data. * Switch to another error management system. Let's make one thing clear. The ...