I'm just trying to ship some error logs from my ASP.NET MVC 5 app to Logz.io
I'm using NLog to ship my logs.
I've installed NLog and NLog.Web packages
I have the following nlog.config file :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<nlog xmlns="http://www.nlog-project.org/schemas/NLog.xsd"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
autoReload="true"
throwExceptions="true"
internalLogLevel="ERROR"
internalLogFile="C:\Temp\nlog-internal.log">
<extensions>
<add assembly="Logzio.DotNet.NLog"/>
</extensions>
<targets async="true">
<target name="file" type="File"
fileName="<pathToFileName>"
archiveFileName="<pathToArchiveFileName>"
keepFileOpen="false"
layout="<long layout patten>"/>
<target name="logzio"
type="Logzio"
token="LRK......"
logzioType="nlog"
listenerUrl="https://listener.logz.io:8071"
bufferSize="1"
bufferTimeout="00:00:05"
retriesMaxAttempts="3"
retriesInterval="00:00:02"
debug="false" />
</targets>
<rules>
<logger name="*" minlevel="Debug" writeTo="logzio" />
</rules>
</nlog>
Then, each of my C# controller have this line :
private static Logger logger = LogManager.GetCurrentClassLogger();
and then I try to ship my logs using something like :
logger.Fatal("Something bad happens");
However, when I writeTo="file" in the nlog.config file, I can find a log file on my local disk with "Something bad happens", so everything is fine.
However, nothing appear on my LogzIo web interface when I writeTo="logzio", no logs are shipped there.
What did I miss ?
Answering my own question after I found how to solve this.
Actually, my whole project use HTTPS.
In internal Nlog logs, I had this error
Error : System.Net.WebException : The request was aborted: Could not create SSL/TLS secure channel
I've just added this line of code at the very beginning of ApplicationStart in Global.asax.cs
ServicePointManager.SecurityProtocol |= SecurityProtocolType.Tls12;
After testing the whole project during some days, it seems it doesn't affect the other parts of the project.
However, just be careful as it is a global setting
I had the same issue, and it turned out that in my published app the logzio dlls were missing. I added them and it resolved the issue.
Check if you're missing these files in your bin folder:
Logzio.DotNet.NLog.dll
Logzio.DotNet.Core.dll
Related
I have followed many different guides on how to configure the log4net, it is up and running but i can't find a log file anywhere ...
This is how my configuration look like:
Web.Config
<section name="log4net" type="log4net.Config.Log4NetConfigurationSectionHandler, log4net" />
<log4net debug="true">
<appender name="RollingLogFileAppender" type="log4net.Appender.RollingFileAppender">
<file value="C:\\temp\\Log.txt" />
<appendToFile value="true" />
<rollingStyle value="Size" />
<maxSizeRollBackups value="10" />
<maximumFileSize value="10MB" />
<staticLogFileName value="true" />
<layout type="log4net.Layout.PatternLayout">
<conversionPattern value="%-5p %d %5rms %-22.22c{1} %-18.18M - %m%n" />
</layout>
</appender>
<root>
<level value="DEBUG" />
<appender-ref ref="RollingLogFileAppender" />
</root>
</log4net>
Global.asax:
XmlConfigurator.Configure(new FileInfo(Server.MapPath("~/Web.config")));
//XmlConfigurator.Configure();
StartUp.cs
//[assembly: XmlConfigurator(ConfigFile = "Web.config", Watch = true)]
[assembly: XmlConfigurator(Watch = true)]
Declaration
readonly log4net.ILog logger = log4net.LogManager.GetLogger(System.Reflection.MethodBase.GetCurrentMethod().DeclaringType);
Logging
BasicConfigurator.Configure();
logger.Info("Info logging ...");
logger.Error("Homepage loading test logging ...");
Where my file value is: <file value="C:\\temp\\Log.txt" />
I have tried several paths, and commented out what above but no success.
What am i doing wrong?
UPDATE:
As suggested by John H i have tried configuring and calling the logger in the Application_Start method and tried several alternative configs with it but with no luck. Here are 2 screenshots of some debugging info:
Main properties:
Below are the Logger properties:
What am i doing wrong?
OK so i got it to work following this tutorial: log4net-guide-dotnet-logging
I have created a log4net.config file with content as showed in tutorial.
used [assembly: XmlConfigurator(ConfigFile = "log4net.config", Watch = true)]
Called it like this:
ILog logger = LogManager.GetLogger(MethodBase.GetCurrentMethod().DeclaringType);
logger.Info("Application started.");
file is created and content logged as well.
I am gonna compare the config files content and see if the difference is in there and go gradually comparing everything till i have found what caused it not to work.
Thank you for helping me!
Kind regards
From your screenshots, we can see that your logger is not being initialised with your configuration, because IsDebug is false. One thing I notice from your screenshot, is you're trying to pass the path to Web.config directly to the Configure() method. I realise that may be an attempt to solve the problem, so you may have already tried my next suggestion, but calling Configure() in the manner you currently have won't work because Web.config is not published to your bin\debug folder. It will called Web.projectname.config. Calling
XmlConfigurator.Configure()
with no parameters, will automatically resolve the correct configuration file in your output directory. I'm guessing you've tried that, but if that still doesn't work, try this as well:
using log4net;
protected void Application_Start(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
// Initialising configuration before requesting a logger.
XmlConfigurator.Configure();
// Requesting a logger only after the configuration has been initialised.
var logger = LogManager.GetLogger(typeof(Global));
logger.Info("Application started.");
}
I'm not sure it will make any difference, but your configuration looks fine to me.
But by inspecting the IsDebug property on the logger, you'll at least be able to tell if the configuration has even been read.
Edit: One other thing, make sure the application will have the permissions to write to the file. From the documentation:
The RollingFileAppender extends the FileAppender and has the same behavior when opening the log file. The appender will first try to open the file for writing when ActivateOptions() is called. This will typically be during configuration. If the file cannot be opened for writing the appender will attempt to open the file again each time a message is logged to the appender. If the file cannot be opened for writing when a message is logged then the message will be discarded by this appender.
This is my crossdomain.xml that I put in the same folder of my Web.config:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE cross-domain-policy SYSTEM "http://www.macromedia.com/xml/dtds/cross-domain-policy.dtd">
<cross-domain-policy>
<site-control permitted-cross-domain-policies="all"/>
<allow-access-from domain="*" secure="false" />
<allow-http-request-headers-from domain="*" headers="*" />
</cross-domain-policy>
Although I can load using Security.loadPolicyFile("http://localhost:52090/crossdomain.xml").
When my swf try to comunicate with my local site (asp.net mvc) it says:
Error #2048: Security sandbox violation: http:/ /localhost:52090/Content/Swf/MyApp.swf cannot load data from localhost:52090
How do I solve that?
Since you use as3httpclientlib that based on Socket, rather than URLLoader you should setup socket policy server instead of http one (so your crossdomain.xml isn't used by flash in this case).
To setup flash policy server you can use perl script from this article http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/socket_policy_files.html with policy xml suggested by #Bart Friederichs (with to-ports attribute)
Try this one:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<cross-domain-policy>
<site-control permitted-cross-domain-policies="all"/>
<allow-access-from domain="*" to-ports="*" />
</cross-domain-policy>
also, if you send it yourself, make sure to send a null-character in the end.
I have a problem with NLog for logging its internal logs with this configuration
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<nlog xmlns="http://www.nlog-project.org/schemas/NLog.xsd"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
throwExceptions="true"
internalLogFile="${basedir}/App_Data/NLog.log"
internalLogLevel="Trace">
<targets>
<target name="debug"
xsi:type="File"
fileName="${basedir}/App_Data/Site.log" />
</targets>
<rules>
<logger name="*"
writeTo="debug" />
</rules>
</nlog>
The target "debug" is working well, but the internalLogFile is only working if I set it for exemple to "D:/NLog.log".
Any idea why this happening?
You can't use layout renderers ${...} in the internalLogFile property. They are for a target's layout only:
<target layout="${...}" />
Try to use relative path like "..\App_Data\NLog.log"
Update NLog 4.6 enables some simple layouts.
The internalLogFile attribute needs to be set to an absolute path and the executing assembly needs to have permission to write to that absolute path.
The following worked for me.
Create a folder somewhere - e.g. the route of your c: drive, e.g. c:\logs
Edit the permissions of this folder and give full control to everyone
Set your nlog config: internalLogFile="C:\logs\nlog.txt"
Remember to clean up after yourself and not leave a directory with those sorts of permissions on
NLog ver. 4.6 add support for environment-variables like %appdata% or %HOME%, and using these basic layouts in internalLogFile=:
${currentdir}
${basedir}
${tempdir}
NLog ver. 4.7 also adds this:
${processdir}
See also: https://github.com/NLog/NLog/wiki/Internal-Logging
from this link I think the path is absolute
I read a really cool blog about using Autofac to completely decouple an application. But try as I might (and being horribly new to all this), I just couldn't get Autofac to gel.
I turned to Unity from the MS Patterns & Practices Enterprise Library and that went a whole lot better. To make things unnecessarily hard for myself, I separated out all my stuff into projects as:
UnityDi (Console app)
UnityDi.Contracts (Interfaces)
UntiyDi.Domain (Classes)
UnityDi.Repositories (Data Access)
UnityDi.Services (Access to repository through a service layer)
I used XML configuration to pony up Unity:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
<configSections>
<section name="unity" type="Microsoft.Practices.Unity.Configuration.UnityConfigurationSection, Microsoft.Practices.Unity.Configuration" />
</configSections>
<unity xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/practices/2010/unity">
<assembly name="UnityDi.Contracts" />
<assembly name="UnityDi.Domain" />
<assembly name="UnityDi.Services" />
<assembly name="UnityDi.Repositories" />
<namespace name="UnityDi.Contracts" />
<namespace name="UnityDi.Domain" />
<namespace name="UnityDi.Services" />
<namespace name="UnityDi.Repositories" />
<container>
<register type="IUser" mapTo="User"></register>
<register type="IUserService" mapTo="UserService"></register>
<register type="IUserRepository" mapTo="UserRepository"></register>
</container>
</unity>
</configuration>
And got that into a running app, no worries:
private static readonly IUnityContainer Container = new UnityContainer();
...
Container.LoadConfiguration();
BUT in order to do so, I need a reference to all the above projects from my console app.
Is there a way to make the app only ever have a reference to UnityDi.Contracts (the interfaces)? Then the app is well and truly decoupled (admittedly with a sledgehammer).
I hope that is enough of an explanation, I'm totally new to this and I'm being extreme like this to facilitate better learning.
I suspect the reason it looks like you need project references is that without them, VS won't copy the assemblies into your apps bin folder when you hit F5. How would it, it has no way of knowing you need them!
The project references are the quickest solution to the problem. The other thing you could do is add a post-build step to copy the appropriate DLLs to end up in the right directory so you can run the app.
I have been working to set up NLog v2 on my ASP.NET MVC 3 application and it has worked very well so far. (I'm using the package from the offical nuGet repository) However, when I try to change the log layout to include any of the aspnet-* layout renderers, I get a configuration error. I've reduced the problem to the following minimum use case:
In the configSections block:
<section name="nlog" type="NLog.Config.ConfigSectionHandler, NLog"/>
The Nlog block:
<nlog xmlns="http://www.nlog-project.org/schemas/NLog.xsd"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" throwExceptions="true">
<variable name="logDirectory" value="C:\Logs" />
<targets>
<target name="logFile" xsi:type="File" fileName="${logDirectory}\app.log"
layout="${aspnet-user-identity}" />
</targets>
<rules>
<logger name="*" minlevel="Info" writeTo="logfile" />
</rules>
If I change layout use any combination of renderers that are not part of the aspnet* family, this works well (I haven't tested every one, but I've looked at quite a few). The error I get is here:
Configuration Error
Description: An error occurred during the processing of a configuration file required to service this request. Please review the specific error details below and modify your configuration file appropriately.
Parser Error Message: An error occurred creating the configuration section handler for nlog: Exception occurred when loading configuration from C:\..[snip]..\web.config
Source Error:
Line 16: </configSections>
Line 17:
Line 18: <nlog xmlns="http://www.nlog-project.org/schemas/NLog.xsd"
Line 19: xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" throwExceptions="true">
Line 20:
I have really no idea what's going on. I'm not sure what about that renderer causes the configuration to become invalid. I've been banging around at it most of the day and have gotten nowhere, so I'm hoping someone here can help.
Thank you!
Make sure you have referenced the NLog.Extended assembly which is where those layouts are defined and which must have been added by the NuGet package as well to the references:
<nlog xmlns="http://www.nlog-project.org/schemas/NLog.xsd"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
throwExceptions="true">
<extensions>
<add assembly="NLog.Extended" />
</extensions>
<variable name="logDirectory" value="C:\Logs" />
<targets>
<target name="logFile"
xsi:type="File"
fileName="${logDirectory}\app.log"
layout="${aspnet-user-identity} ${message}" />
</targets>
<rules>
<logger name="*" minlevel="Debug" writeTo="logfile" />
</rules>
</nlog>
As of NLog 4.0 the ASP.NET renderes are now in Nlog.Web
http://nlog-project.org/2015/06/13/NLog-Extended_NLog-Web_and_NLog-Windows-Forms.html
Alternative solution if Darin's doesn't work
You must have NLog.Extended referenced as Darin mentions
http://nuget.org/packages/NLog.Extended
As of NLog 2.0 you do not need to add reference in the configuration XML.
My problem was that I had no hard references to NLog.Extended in my web layer (where my web.config is) so the compiler wasn't copying the file where it needed to be.
This can be easily fixed by adding a hard reference to NLog.Extended that is a no-op wherever you are configuring your logging:
//forces the compiler to include NLog.Extensions in all downstream output directories
private static AspNetApplicationValueLayoutRenderer blank = new AspNetApplicationValueLayoutRenderer();
In my case I was using extension of le_nlog and for a reason, it was not installed in the app !
so I installed *le_nlog* by doing so :
PM> Install-Package le_nlog