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copied!<p>I'd like to get stories on how people are handling tracing and logging in real applications. Here are some questions that might help to explain your answer. </p> <p><strong>Frameworks</strong></p> <p>What frameworks do you use?</p> <ul> <li>log4net</li> <li>System.Diagnostics.Trace</li> <li>System.Diagnostics.TraceSource</li> <li>Logging application block</li> <li>Other?</li> </ul> <p>If you use tracing, do you make use of Trace.Correlation.StartLogicalOperation? </p> <p>Do you write this code manually, or do you use some form of aspect oriented programming to do it? Care to share a code snippet? </p> <p>Do you provide any form of granularity over trace sources? E.g., WPF TraceSources allow you to configure them at various levels:</p> <ul> <li>System.Windows - <em>settings for all of WPF</em></li> <li>System.Windows.Animation - <em>override specifically for Animation.</em></li> </ul> <p><strong>Listeners</strong></p> <p>What log outputs do you use?</p> <ul> <li>Text files</li> <li>XML files</li> <li>Event log</li> <li>Other?</li> </ul> <p>If using files, do you use rolling logs or just a single file? How do you make the logs available for people to consume? </p> <p><strong>Viewing</strong></p> <p>What tools to you use for viewing the logs?</p> <ul> <li>Notepad</li> <li>Tail</li> <li>Event viewer</li> <li>Systems Center Operations Manager/Microsoft Operations Manger</li> <li>WCF Service Trace Viewer</li> <li>Other?</li> </ul> <p>If you are building an ASP.NET solution, do you also use ASP.NET Health Monitoring? Do you include trace output in the health monitor events? What about Trace.axd? </p> <p>What about custom performance counters? </p>

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