Log4Net Dashboard version 2.2 is released.
Highlights:
- Retrieve log events from several types of log storage, SqlServer, TextFile and Windows Event Log.
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- Predefined filters, save filters for future use.
- Column Visualizers to render column values.
- New Css style sheet “VerdanaSlate”
- SDK, write your own log providers, and your own Visualizers.
- Bug fixes
The new windows event log provider, can read any log from the Windows event log, and are not restricted to logs written by Log4Net.
The new Textfile provider will read log files written by the FileAppender or the RollingFileAppender. The appenders must be configured to write the logs in XMLformat using the log4net.Layout.XmlLayout.
The predefined filters are stored in an XML file on the server, and can be predefined with filters matching a particular application. If you choose to open the dashboard to support staff the filters can be predefined with filters the support staff can use to diagnose problems.
Both the new log readers (Textfile and Windows event log) and the Visualizers are based on a provider interface. The provider interface makes it possible for others to write there own providers that can be plugged in to L4Ndash. To write your own providers you need to download the L4NDash SDK, the SDK contain documentation of the provider interface, the internal object model in L4NDash and the source code for the standard providers.
The Column visualizers make it possible to write visualizers that can visualize all kind of data that are stored in a log file/table. Visualizers are very useful in combination with custom columns.
The new version and the SDK can be downloaded from www.l4ndash.com