How does one troubleshoot log4net when it stops logging

Question

It seems that Log4Net silently shuts down for reasons that are not obvious, and I\'m at a loss how to troubleshoot it. My hunch is that a particular appender is failing on

Answer 1

I think there's a config value you can put in the appSettings section of your app.config/web.config to turn on internal debug statements in log4net:

This will give you some insight into any errors that log4net might be swallowing.