Error logging for mutliple sites on same server

[philwilks]

I have a dedicated server on which I run several ASP.Net 2.0 website.
At the moment, each site has an Application_OnError subroutine that is
defined in the site's Global.asax file. This writes the error to a log
file, as well as emailing me with an alert.

Is there a better way to do this? Ideally, I'd just have one thing set
up that would pick up errors from any of my websites. I was thinking
that there might be a way to use the Windows Event Viewer and set up
some sort of custom script to email errors caused by ASP.Net.

 

[Onwuka Emeka]

You might want to look at open source logging tools like log4net
logging.apache.org/log4net/

 

[Flinky Wisty Pomm]

You can subscribe to a windows event log. There's some code here for a
simple event log watcher as a WinForms app
[http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/RTEventReader.asp]

What I'd probably do is write a Windows service that watched your local
system's event log and published events to a log file/email
notification list. That way you can set it up once and it should pick
up any unhandled exceptions from the windows event log.

hth

-- flink

 

[Phil Wilks]

Thanks a lot for your advice!