Question

I’m using .net web config to create trace listener for debug and trace output in a .NET web app.

The problem is that if left, the log file, which always uses the same name can get massive and has actually caused me some application issues today.

I can’t find a method on the net of setting a log file size limit, or a method of using a dynamic name, such as one that uses a date string as part of the name.

Does anyone know if this is possible?

So far I am using:

<system.diagnostics>
        <trace autoflush="true" indentsize="4">
            <listeners>
                <add name="CollectionLister" type="System.Diagnostics.TextWriterTraceListener" initializeData="Collections.log" />
            </listeners>
        </trace>
    </system.diagnostics>

Answer 1

Personally, I would use a more sophisticated logging framework, like nlog

That can do the file splitting policy stuff for you.