Comments on: Writing a Custom Appender for log4net

By: Custom Name Badges

Custom Name Badges — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:57:54 +0000

used to use log4net in most of my projects. Looked for something to extend right like in your post! many thanks

By: Karl

Karl — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 03:06:59 +0000

Thanks Ryan, please do let me know if it works out ok! The trickiest part I found with this appender was to decide what gets logged as an issue or not – uncaught exceptions being a given. Be sure to look at whatever mechanism your issue tracker uses to log duplicates too … it’s easy to get flooded otherwise

By: Ryan Tomlinson

Ryan Tomlinson — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 00:01:24 +0000

Hi Karl,

Another great post. I’ve been looking at log4net this week and hadn’t thought to write an appender to log into our issue tracking system.

Brilliant idea!

Cheers,

Ryan

By: Prasad

Prasad — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 13:08:08 +0000

Thanks for the reply.

Is it possible to Override the Error,Debug…etc functions in my custom appender. so that, i can use some more custom parameters, along with message and exception.

By: karlagius

karlagius — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:58:49 +0000

Hi Prasad, thanks for your comment.

The appender described here assumes that you are using a Gemini issue tracking system. To use the custom appender, place the dll generated by the project with the rest of your project binaries. Also include the log4net dlls.

Finally, include the tags shown in the article (appender name=”Gemini” and so on) in your application .config file. The values in to use depend on your Gemini installation, so you might want to check with the documentation or the person who maintains your issue tracking system about it.

Thanks again for commenting. Let me know if you have any problems

By: Prasad

Prasad — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 13:50:47 +0000

I found the code pretty useful. But, i donno how i can configure this custom appender to my project. Can you please guide me.

By: karlagius

karlagius — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 08:35:58 +0000

Hi Kaushal, the source code can be downloaded from

http://cid-f9403e3f2829cab9.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/The%20Simple%20Part/writing-a-custom-appender-for-log4net/WebServiceAppender.zip

To create a custom appender in your project, create a class that inherits from AppenderSkeleton and override the Append(LoggingEvent[] loggingEvents) and Append(LoggingEvent loggingEvent) methods. Inside these methods, you can write to MSMQ in the same way you normally would in an application. Let me know if you have any problems downloading the source code or anything.

By: Kaushal Patel

Kaushal Patel — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 05:31:40 +0000

Hi,

Can you email me your code/zip file on
kaushal.patel@lehman.com
patelkaushalk@gmail.com

Also, I would appreciate if you guide me how to write Appender for MSMQ & how to use it in project file.

Regards,
Kaushal.

By: marlongrech

marlongrech — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 17:52:52 +0000

Cool dude…. I am sure I will find it useful in my near future projects

Thanks for this