After releasing Elmahr v0.2, I think it's time to describe with more details what it is, how it's done and what are my plans for the next releases. ElmahR is a web dashboard where you can aggregate several monitored applications; adding them to ElmahR configuration will enable them to post error events, which will show them on all the connected client dashboards in real-time.
This is just a quick announcement about the fact that in the last 2 days I released ElmahR v0.2 (you may call it 'alpha'). ElmahR is a real-time aggregating dashboard for ELMAH, based on a module I wrote to in the official ELMAH Sandbox, and leveraging SignalR for the async real-time communication. I already described how I came up with idea of this project, and in the last weeks I've been working on it to see if I could realize it. I'm quite happy with the results so far, so I decided to share it, let's see if you find it as much interesting as I did.
The project is still very basic and it's missing features, but at the end of the day it's working, and it's been real fun to work on it because it allowed me to try a lot of great stuff out there:
During the last few days I've been working on a new idea. I've been listening and reading about SignalR since a few months, and 2 weeks ago I attended a very interesting session by Marteen Balliauw about it at the UGIALT.NET conference in Milan. At the same time I'm an ELMAH user since a while, and I have the pleasure to share my working hours and my lunches with its author Atif. So, when I was in my car coming back from the conference to where I live, and despite (or maybe thanks to...) a bad cold that was hitting me, I had this idea to join these two libraries to offer real time and interactive experience to the logging capabilities that ELMAH offers. This week I started this experiment and I had a lot of fun working on it.
First, I cloned the ELMAH Sandbox project repository following the recommended guidelines, and inside it I wrote a new ErrorPostModule for ELMAH. This module is very simple, and so far its implementation is still very basic, its goal is to process an unhandled exception that occurred in the host application and post its Json representation to a specified destination. When you have this module available, in your ELMAH-enable applications you can activate it adding a configuration key like this one: