Logging in .Net: a short study
I have been using different third-party logging tools for both .Net (C# and C++) and Java, but in my current project we are using a custom logging tool. Don't ask me why we have written our own framework for this, but I guess it's partly because we have worked on our current code base since before .Net 1.0 was released, hence I guess the number of available frameworks at that time was quite limited. But now I am tired of spending time and money maintaining code we could get for free elsewhere!
So I started looking at the different frameworks available out there. I don't find the differences very big, but shifting from one framework to another requires some resources, so I don't want to do this shift more than once, wasting time and money by migrating to a "dead horse".
Important factors:
- Framework still in a 0.x version (beta)?
- Current release
- New releases in pipeline?
- Support for .Net 3.5
- Logg reader available
- Logging to Xml or text?
- Discussion forums?
- Popular
So What are my finidings?
I created this overview of the available framework:
Basically I am down to two choices: Log4net and NLog.
Log4net is a well know framework, which has been around for a very long time, and has become more of an industry standard for logging, but keeping in mind that there has been no development for years, I would guess, that log4net will slowly die out.
NLog on the other hand is still under developement, and is currently working with .Net 3.5 support, and with a good discussion forum, the choice is cleare, and we have a winner: NLog!
Disclaimer
The opinions expressed herein are my own personal opinions and do not represent my employer's view in any way.
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March 11th, 2010 - 22:30
For a great way to manage and analyze the data NLog generates check out Gibraltar.
http://GibraltarSoftware.com/See
In fact, we work closely with the author of NLog. We’ll be supporting NLog 2.0 and he endorses Gibraltar as the best analysis tool for NLog:
http://nlog-project.org/blog/2009/11/01/gibraltar-adapter-for-nlog-released.html