Thomas Ardal

Adding error logging to an ASP.NET application can be quite the challenge. A lot of different tools and frameworks are available. Everyone probably know log4net, but a lot happened since the first .NET logging frameworks where conceived. This post will show you the best practices which will provide you ...

Your wish is our command. Well almost. A recurring feature request has been yearly payments, known from similar SaaS applications. As of today, you will be able to choose to pay one year in advance on any elmah.io plan: Having customers willing to pay yearly (rather than monthly) is ...

This is an English translation of an article that Microsoft wrote about us in their Danish MSDN Flash newsletter. elmah.io helps developers find errors on their sites and services – and handles very large fluctuations in the incoming data volume. Therefore the service, located on Azure, can scale to the ...

Until now, the documentation for elmah.io have been centered around our blog. We initially chose to do this simply because it was easy to get started and because WordPress offered some nice tools to author new pages without us having to code everything. In time, the blog have grown ...

You may take it for granted, but building an architecture that is able to scale to millions of messages isn’t something that comes overnight. elmah.io is built to handle lots and lots of messages by utilizing some of the nice features of Windows Azure. In this post, we’ ...

We use Mandrill (by Mailchimp) to send out emails and have been doing that since we send the first mail from elmah.io. You may not know Mandrill, but it’s a transactional email service, developed by the same guys that build Mailchimp. Disclamer: we are not affiliated with Mandrill ...

We try to do anything in our power to make visiting elmah.io a pleasant experience. But visiting elmah.io on a daily or even hourly basis to spot new errors quickly becomes tedious. That’s why we’ve implemented the New Error Email. Sending emails from elmah.io have ...

A feature request that we’ve received a lot, is to improve the mail template when logging new messages to elmah.io. You may not know it, but elmah.io supports mail communications through the Business Rules feature available on your log settings. In the past, the emails contained the ...

Ever had that feeling of déjà vu when looking through your logs? You drill down into the details on an error and think to yourself: I’ve seen this before! In the latest release, we start to provide you with better insights into the errors logged from your website. First ...