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.

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313 posts
Sending transactional emails using Mandrill and .NET

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 ...

Receive an email when a new error is logged

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 ...

New mail template

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 ...

Get better insights with the error occurence graph

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 ...

Daily Digest Email

Even though elmah.io provides a great UI for search your logs and even integrates with various notifiers through the business rules feature and the Zapier integration, you may not visit elmah.io every day. That’s why we’ve implemented the Daily Digest Email feature. Sometimes you don’t ...

Invoicing

Since writing this post we have introduced organizations and moved invoices to the organization settings page. For instructions on how to find your invoices check out Where is my invoice/receipt? One of the most requested features of elmah.io actually has nothing to do with logging: Invoicing. A lot ...

API v2 Released

This post is obsolete. Since writing this, only the new v3 API is available. Check out GHOST_URL/stable-v3-api-and-client-integrations/ for details. Time for an update on our v2 API which we released in beta last year. The new API has been available for the last three months through the website ...

Trial accounts introduced

This post is obsolete. Since introducing trial accounts, the trial period has been changed to 21 days. The free for BizSpark program has been replaced as well. Time for an update from us at elmah.io. Unlike most people, we have spent the Christmas holiday working. Multiple fixes and improvements ...

Extended User Details

A lot changed with both Extended User Details and the elmah.io UI in general since writing this post. Sign up to see the recent version. With elmah.io’s new Extended User Details feature, you can look up extended information about the user experiencing a bug on your website. ...