Thomas Ardal

elmah.io exited beta and introduced paid plans, keeping existing users on a free tier while charging new signups. It recaps features shipped since the alpha: Lucene-based search in November, HTTPS support in December, and Ignore Filters in January, later expanded into today's rule engine. ...

elmah.io's new Overview tab summarizes the last 24 hours of errors with four boxes (Total, Unique, Users, Browsers), a 5-browser affected indicator, and four gauges tracking Critical (500) and Not Found (404) status codes, recent-hour error volume, and how often the most frequent error repeats. ...

elmah.io added a Profile page for editing your name, email, and newsletter subscription (sent quarterly), plus two new rule engine actions: Mail, emailing you when an error matches a saved query like one from Googlebot, and HTTP Request, calling a URL with property-merge support in the body. ...

elmah.io redesigned its Dashboard for direct navigation into each log's Search and Settings, renamed Ignore Filters to Rules ahead of adding Send Mail and HTTP Request actions beyond Ignore, and added Trac integration for creating issues straight from the error details page after setting a base URL. ...

elmah.io introduced Ignore Filters on the Filters tab under log settings, letting you suppress errors matching a Lucene query, such as the built-in 'Ignore Googlebot' template filter that silences errors from crawler user agents, keeping noisy bot traffic out of your error log. ...

This cross-post from thomasardal.com walks through clustering Elasticsearch on Windows Azure VMs: creating a virtual network and affinity group for node communication, then provisioning three VMs, drawing on the author's eBay experience that two nodes isn't a safe cluster, inside one Cloud Service. ...

elmah.io added SSL support, so errors logged via the NuGet package now ship over HTTPS while the site remains accessible on the non-secure URL too, plus a new ability to rename an existing log. The release also upgraded the underlying stack to the latest ASP.NET MVC and ASP.NET Web API versions. ...

elmah.io's NuGet package install got simpler, showing a dialog to input your log ID instead of editing web.config by hand. This release also added Lucene query syntax to search, GitHub issue tracker integration for error details, a Delete button for removing errors, and XML support in the API. ...

elmah.io shipped a new dashboard showing a 24-hour error graph per log, split the search page into Filters, Statistics, and a new 14-day calendar view tab, and added the ability to change existing users' log access permissions from the Users tab. ...