Logging to elmah.io from Orchard CMS

Orchard CMS is a free, open-source community-focused content management system built on the ASP.NET MVC and ASP.NET Core platforms. This tutorial is written for the ASP.NET Core version of Orchard. If you want to log to elmah.io from the MVC version, you should follow our tutorial for MVC.

To start logging to elmah.io, install the Elmah.Io.Client and Elmah.Io.AspNetCore NuGet packages:

Install-Package Elmah.Io.Client
Install-Package Elmah.Io.AspNetCore

dotnet add package Elmah.Io.Client
dotnet add package Elmah.Io.AspNetCore

<PackageReference Include="Elmah.Io.Client" Version="5.*" />
<PackageReference Include="Elmah.Io.AspNetCore" Version="5.*" />

paket add Elmah.Io.Client
paket add Elmah.Io.AspNetCore

Then modify your Startup.cs file:

public class Startup
{
    public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
    {
        // ...
        services.AddElmahIo(o =>
        {
            o.ApiKey = "API_KEY";
            o.LogId = new Guid("LOG_ID");
        });
    }

    public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app, IHostingEnvironment env)
    {
        // ...
        app.UseElmahIo();
        // ...
    }
}

Replace API_KEY with your API key (Where is my API key?) and LOG_ID with the id of the log (Where is my log ID?) where you want errors logged.

Like with any other ASP.NET Core application, it's important to call the UseElmahIo-method after setting up other middleware handling exceptions (like UseDeveloperExceptionPage).

Orchard uses NLog as the internal logging framework. Hooking into this pipeline is a great way to log warnings and errors through NLog to elmah.io as well.

Install the Elmah.Io.Nlog NuGet package:

Install-Package Elmah.Io.NLog

dotnet add package Elmah.Io.NLog

<PackageReference Include="Elmah.Io.NLog" Version="5.*" />

paket add Elmah.Io.NLog

Add the elmah.io target to the NLog.config-file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<nlog>

  <extensions>
    <!-- ... -->
    <add assembly="Elmah.Io.NLog"/>
  </extensions>

  <targets>
    <!-- ... -->
    <target name="elmahio" type="elmah.io" apiKey="API_KEY" logId="LOG_ID"/>
  </targets>

  <rules>
    <!-- ... -->
    <logger name="*" minlevel="Warn" writeTo="elmahio" />
  </rules>
</nlog>

Make sure not to log Trace and Debug messages to elmah.io, which will quickly use up the included storage.

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