error-logging

I am making my switch from coding in C++ to C#. I need to replace my C++ error logging/reporting macro system with something similar in C#. In my C++ source I can write LOGERR("Some error"); or LOGERR("Error with inputs %s and %d", stringvar, intvar); The macro & supporting library code then passes the (possibly varargs) formatted message into a database along with the source file, source line, user name, and time. The same data is also stuffed into a data structure for later reporting to the user. Does anybody have C# code snippets or pointers to examples that do this basic error reporting

Whenever a user reports an error such as System.Runtime.InteropServices.SEHException - External component has thrown an exception? is there anything that I as a programmer can do to determine the cause? Scenario : One user (using a program my company wrote) has reported this error. This may or may not have been a one off error. They mentioned that in the last month, the computer has twice 'stopped working'. I have learnt from experience, not to take this description too literally, as it usually means that someone relating to the computer is not working as expected. They were unable to give me

I have a small web-server that I wrote with Sinatra. I want to be able to log messages to a log file. I've read through http://www.sinatrarb.com/api/index.html and www.sinatrarb.com/intro.html, and I see that Rack has something called Rack::CommonLogger, but I can't find any examples of how it can be accessed and used to log messages. My app is simple so I wrote it as a top-level DSL, but I can switch to subclassing it from SinatraBase if that's part of what's required. Roman Gonzalez Rack::CommonLogger won't provide a logger to your main app, it will just logs the request like Apache would do

I'm using Elmah to log exceptions. Elmah is great at logging request bodies if the request is a Form-based request (i.e. Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded), but with JSON based requests where the content type is application/json, the request body is nowhere to be found in the error reports. Anyone know where I can find this request body so that I can properly diagnose my exceptions? UPDATE: 2012-01-03 As a clarification on what I mean by JSON based requests, here's an example raw HTTP request with JSON as the request body: PUT http://mycompany.com/api/v1.0/me HTTP/1.1 Host:

I'm getting 500 Internal Server errors when I try to make an HTTP POST to a specific address in my app. I've looked into the server logs in the custom log directory specified in the virtual hosts file, but the error doesn't show up there so debugging this has been a pain in the ass. How do I cause Apache to log Internal 500 errors into the error log? The default error log as opposed to the scripts error logs usually has the (more) specific error. often it will be permissions denied or even an interpreter that can't be found. This means the fault almost always lies with your script. e.g you

I'm looking for a way to print the call stack in PHP. Bonus points if the function flushes the IO buffer. If you want to generate a backtrace, you are looking for debug_backtrace and/or debug_print_backtrace . The first one will, for instance, get you an array like this one (quoting the manual) : array(2) { [0]=> array(4) { ["file"] => string(10) "/tmp/a.php" ["line"] => int(10) ["function"] => string(6) "a_test" ["args"]=> array(1) { [0] => &string(6) "friend" } } [1]=> array(4) { ["file"] => string(10) "/tmp/b.php" ["line"] => int(2) ["args"] => array(1) { [0] => string(10) "/tmp/a.php" } [