Limiting the Number of Emails Sent By Elmah

Question

Does anyone know of a good way to limit the number of emails sent by Elmah during a time period like you can with Health Monitoring?

I want to be able to limit the email

Answer 1

I don't know if Elmah has that capability (the docs don't mention it), but ASP.NET's health monitoring does: http://aspnet.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/032107-1.aspx

I ended up writing my own event logging, notification, and rollup system for my CMS... I hash the stack trace of each exception and use it to 'roll-up' similar events (a web app may get thousands of exceptions in less than a second if something goes wrong).

I configured my notification period to 1 day - I only get notified of the first instance of an error each day. The latest instance of an error is always saved, but older instances are 'cleaned up' to the last 20 or so, depending upon frequency, etc....

It integrates with the authentication system, so administrators/developers get an 'inbox' of events they have subscribed to, and can look at debug info in real time, while preventing unathenticated users from seeing any debugging info at all.

Really nice... And since it's generic, it works for non-error events also, like publications, user change notifications, etc.

I'm curious if anyone would be interested in that kind of system exposed as a library?