Intro To Elmah.Io for Logging in .NET 8 and Blazor Web Apps

Storing your logs online in a useful manner can be tricky. There are many different services out there with different options. One service that I have found useful, especially since I like to use Serilog as my logging system, is Elmah.io. Elmah.io is an online log storage and management system that works really well with .NET. It quickly gives you clarity into what is happening with your applications, and it can even help you capture unhandled exceptions, 404 errors, and more so that you have a clear picture of what is happening in your deployed applications.
In this video, we are going to look at how to get started with Elmah.io and how to configure our application to send data to the service quickly and easily.
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[@TheSjoerd]

Great one Tim, thanks👍

[@IAmTimCorey]

You are welcome.

[@ThomasArdal]

Thank you so much for sharing, Tim. Just a quick comment. You can actually configure Elmah.Io.Blazor.Wasm using a similar approach to Elmah.Io.AspNetCore. You can even re-use the entire configuration section like this:
builder.Services.Configure(builder.Configuration.GetSection("ElmahIo"));
builder.Logging.AddElmahIo(options =>
{
});
You still need to provide options for the AddElmahIo method. I think we will remove that requirement in a future stable version of the Elmah.Io.Blazor.Wasm package so that you can just call AddElmahIo() when the options are already set up in appsettings. We also want to improve the documentation on this, since I can see how this is not currently clear.

[@IAmTimCorey]

Thanks for sharing!

[@Comphonia]

.NET focused and a beginner friendly UI is definitely a plus -- but the pricing isn't, unless I'm reading it wrong. $19/mo. for only 1k messages is a bit steep for less than 50MB of data! Azure logs or Datadog would charge less than a dollar

[@IAmTimCorey]

Think of that as more of an extended trial tier rather than a production-level tier.

[@Gordack]

Hi tim. I was wondering what would you choose for logging ? Serilog or Elmah ? Thank you

[@IAmTimCorey]

I use Serilog to log to Elmah.io.

[@rikudouensof]

Elmah is quite old. Since. Net framework

[@IAmTimCorey]

This isn’t Elmah, though.

[@rikudouensof]

@@IAmTimCorey ok

[@rikudouensof]

Learn something new every day

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[@IAmTimCorey]

I do not understand what you mean.

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[@IAmTimCorey]

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