Exception using Elmah

Ruchir Saxena

I am using Elmah in my MVC5 project and for error logging I am using XML and not Sql , but the problem i every time Elmah create new file for single Exception , so there are 2 many file if there are 2 many exceptions , I need to know how can we maintain a single log file for all the exceptions occured in our application......... Thanks....."

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Vincent Maverick Durano11y ago
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That's how elmah works. Having a separate log for each exception allows you to easily track exceptions for troubleshooting. Each error gets its own file containing all of its details. The files can easily be copied around, deleted, compressed or mailed to someone for further diagnostics. If you are going to merge them then imagine how difficult it is to track specific errors.

As the documentation states: A smart way of keeping logs based on XmlFileErrorLog running smoothly is to limit the number of files by scheduling a task to periodically archive the old logs and clean up the folder.

Having that said, You will need to create a custom batch job that archives or clean up the logs.
Ruchir Saxena11y ago
Thanks for guidance ... sometimes we have to suffer due to rigid thinking o our managers....
Vincent Maverick Durano11y ago
I'm not aware if Elmah provides a configuration settings to allow single file logging. You may need to implement your own custom logging if you want to control how you would log the errors.
Ruchir Saxena11y ago
Thanks for the reply , but as per my project requirement we need to create single file for error log and then we can trace the error by its date and time .So is it possible to do it with Elmah?