Troubleshooting AppHarbor's "LogEntries" Add-On

Question

I've configured everything with LogEntries and log4net according to this article: https://logentries.com/doc/appharbor/

However, in my LogEntries panel, I only see events from the IIS log - nothing that I'm logging from my application using log4net. Can someone suggest troubleshooting steps so my custom events will start showing up?

Answer 1

Few things to check here, what version of the logentries.log4net nuget did you install? You can check this if you're using VS in your Nuget package manager. (Note that there's only v2.4.0) But there is an old library upto v2.3.9 called le_log4net which is deprecated, I have to change the title on the package. Secondly, if you paste the content of your web/app.config, only important parts are the log4net block and you appSettings. Lastly, be sure to place the following in your AssemblyInfo.cs as its sometimes overlooked.

[assembly: log4net.Config.XmlConfigurator(ConfigFile="Web.config", Watch = true)]

You can email me at [email protected] or use our in-app support (I'm with Logentries and wrote the .NET libs.) as it may be quicker than debugging on here. Although its no harm doing it here so as to keep the solution public.