Thomas Ardal

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.

Denmark
313 posts
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 ...

CryptographicException: The key ... was not found in the key ring (IIS)

I talked with a user the other day experiencing this error on a website hosted on IIS: System.Security.Cryptography.CryptographicException: The key {...} was not found in the key ring. It's a common error that can happen when hosting .NET code on IIS, why I want to put ...

Working towards GDPR compliance

Since writing this post, elmah.io is now 100% GDPR compliant. Check out Security and GDPR Commitment for details. You may have heard about GDPR or the General Data Protection Regulation. It's a new set of directives that every company dealing with EU citizens needs to follow. We ...

Introducing Uptime Monitoring

Something struck me back in December. We've written a lot about the new Uptime Monitoring feature on the blog, our newsletter and more. But we never actually introduced the new system as a whole (which probably just shows that we are more nerds than business men :). So, either ...

elmah.io User Survey 2017

Back in December, we decided to try out something new. Some of the tool vendors we look up to, send out a yearly user survey. We talk with a lot of our users through the support, but when thinking about it, a survey seemed like a good idea to measure ...

New Hire at elmah.io: Kristoffer Strube

Everyone, please welcome Kristoffer Strube to the elmah.io team. Kristoffer is a young up-and-coming star, hired as a student programmer on elmah.io. I'll let Kristoffer introduce himself: "Hi, I'm Kristoffer. I’m originally from Horsens, Denmark, but right now I live in Aarhus ...

Follow all changes on elmah.io

If you are a recurring reader of this blog, you know that we announce major new features here once in a while. Major new features are not the only priority of the elmah.io development team. We constantly make adjustments, fix bugs, create minor features not worth mentioning on the ...