ELMAH error handler for asp.net applications

Published on Dec 15, 2008

This looks very interesting (from their site).

ELMAH (Error Logging Modules and Handlers) is an application-wide error logging facility that is completely pluggable. It can be dynamically added to a running ASP.NET web application, or even all ASP.NET web applications on a machine, without any need for re-compilation or re-deployment.

Once ELMAH has been dropped into a running web application and configured appropriately, you get the following facilities without changing a single line of your code:

  • Logging of nearly all unhandled exceptions.
  • A web page to remotely view the entire log of recoded exceptions.
  • A web page to remotely view the full details of any one logged exception.
  • In many cases, you can review the original yellow screen of death that ASP.NET generated for a given exception, even with customErrors mode turned off.
  • An e-mail notification of each error at the time it occurs.
  • An RSS feed of the last 15 errors from the log.
  • A number of backing storage implementations for the log, including in-memory, Microsoft SQL Server and several contributed by the community.

I haven’t use it yet, but it really sounds like something that I see myself incorporating into my tool box. You can download it from Google code.