Thomas Ardal

elmah.io launches its Goodie Bag with the first four discount deals for .NET developers, including a deal on the debugging tool OzCode, redeemable exclusively by subscribers on an active Business or Enterprise plan, with more tool partnerships to be added as further deals are negotiated. ...

This outdated 2015 snapshot lists elmah.io's original stack: Windows Azure, ASP.NET MVC and Web API, Elasticsearch for search, Redis caching, Serilog for internal dogfood logging, Mandrill for transactional email, New Relic monitoring, Paymill payments, and MkDocs for documentation. ...

elmah.io adds yearly billing as an option on any subscription plan, offering a 10% discount over paying monthly, though switching plans or payment cycles mid-term isn't refunded, so customers should wait until their current monthly or yearly subscription expires before making the switch. ...

This best-practices guide covers restricting access to ELMAH's /elmah.axd endpoint, picking the right contrib package like Elmah.Mvc or Nancy.Elmah, and pairing ELMAH with Serilog's structured templates (e.g. 'Executed {Url} in {Elapsed} ms') stored in a schemaless store like Elasticsearch. ...

This translated MSDN Flash interview with elmah.io's Thomas Ardal covers handling about 10,000 errors per hour (spiking to 50,000) via Azure Service Bus queuing, auto-scaling websites, an Elasticsearch cluster storing 100+ GB, and Blob Storage as a raw-data backup. ...

elmah.io launches docs.elmah.io, built with the Python-based MkDocs tool from Markdown files, replacing scattered WordPress blog posts and organizing content into three sections: Installation, Integrations (Slack, Zapier), and Help tutorials like logging custom data with ELMAH. ...

elmah.io's ingestion API runs on auto-scaling Azure Websites, guarded by a custom Burst Protection feature that throttles logging during traffic spikes, then routes messages via Azure Service Bus pub/sub to scalable consumers indexing everything in Elasticsearch, backed up daily to Blob Storage. ...

This tutorial shows how elmah.io sends transactional emails from .NET via Mandrill's MandrillApi client: switching templates to Handlebars.js, building an EmailMessage with MergeLanguage set to TemplateSyntax.Handlebars, adding global variables, and calling the async SendMessageTemplate method. ...

elmah.io's New Error Email replaces old all-or-nothing per-message alerts with a smarter rule: you're emailed only when an error's title and severity hasn't been seen in the past 24 hours, toggled at log creation or later from your Profile page alongside the Daily Digest Email option. ...