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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New mail template

Redesigns the Business Rules error notification email from a bare title-and-link into a full template showing message details in a table plus the stack trace in a dark details box, so you can inspect an error without logging into elmah.io. ...

Get better insights with the error occurence graph

Adds an occurrence graph to the expanded error details view, plotting how often a specific error like an AuthenticationException from SimpleAuthentication recurred across your plan's full retention period, to help gauge real severity. ...

Daily Digest Email

elmah.io's Daily Digest Email feature sends a scheduled summary of your application's last 24 hours, including total message count, critical error counts, unique message totals, an hourly message graph, and a list of the 5 most frequent messages. Enable it from the Profile page's Emails tab. ...

Invoicing

elmah.io's Invoicing feature adds an Invoices tab beneath your profile listing every successful payment for your account, with each entry opening as a viewable invoice in a new window. Available on all pricing plans, it gives accountants downloadable proof of payment without contacting support. ...

API v2 Released

elmah.io's v2 API exited beta with six severities (Verbose, Debug, Information, Warning, Error, Fatal), a new elmah.io.client NuGet package split from elmah.io.core for logging via Logger.Create(), and a rewritten Serilog sink using WriteTo.ElmahIO() for console, WPF, and other non-ELMAH apps. ...

Trial accounts introduced

elmah.io replaced its free-forever plan with a 30-day trial for new users, plus 30 additional trial days for existing free users, after which unpaid logs become inaccessible. Microsoft BizSpark companies, Microsoft MVPs, and open source projects can still qualify for 6 months of free usage. ...

Extended User Details

elmah.io's Extended User Details feature lets you click a user's avatar in the Affected Users widget on a log's Overview tab, or click a user in log search error details, to see their profile, hometown, and social links like Twitter and Facebook. Also available from error overlay and details page. ...

API v2 Beta Released

elmah.io's v2 API beta replaces the ELMAH-bound ErrorXml format with a pure JSON REST implementation centered on a new Message object instead of Error, adding severity levels like Debug and Information that ELMAH doesn't natively support. A strongly typed client was planned to follow. ...

ELMAH Code Snippets for Visual Studio

elmah.io open-sourced Code Snippets for ELMAH on GitHub (ELMAHCodeSnippets), including the tryraise snippet that expands ErrorSignal logging code on a Tab press. Six snippets ship today; install via the Code Snippet Manager, or get them bundled with the elmah.io Visual Studio extension. ...