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Logging events to a web-service
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| I am looking at creating a web-service for a client that would act as a
centralized place for all applications to log event. The applications
would log things like: committing a financial transaction, errors,
warnings, people failing security audits, etc. Basically all the stuff you
might send to the Windows Event Log or writing to a log file.
I have really mixed feelings about doing this. On one hand it is not that
hard to do and it does give all applications (J2EE, .NET, Perl, etc) a
common way to log stuff. On the other hand they have tools like
HP/Openview which can already go out and read the Windows EventLog, text
files or whatever else. You can even send WMI events or SNMP traps if
necessary.
Given that there are choices and trade-offs to be made here, I'm curious to
know what other people think. What has been tried? Has anybody actually
put a centralized logging web-service in to production? What were the
results? Is it still being used?
Jake Watkins
JakeW@nospam-guerillaprogrammer.com
EAI Architect - MCSD - C#, Web-Services, WSE, BizTalk 2004, SharePoint
2003, InfoPath
Cell - 469-855-5919
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| Pete Wood 2005-05-09, 9:00 pm |
| Good question Jake. As much as I advocate web service, I'm really not sure
if this is appropriate use. I have a number of design principles I use to
check if an w/s is appropriate - one of those is performance. I haven't
actually implemented a logging framework, but I would be hesitant since
financial transactions are usually very fine grained, high-volume.
Here are the rest (it's still work in progress!)
....http://www.webserviceshelp.org/wsh/...ign+Principles/
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Pete Wood
Email me at http://www.webserviceshelp.org for more help
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>I am looking at creating a web-service for a client that would act as a
> centralized place for all applications to log event. The applications
> would log things like: committing a financial transaction, errors,
> warnings, people failing security audits, etc. Basically all the stuff
> you
> might send to the Windows Event Log or writing to a log file.
>
> I have really mixed feelings about doing this. On one hand it is not that
> hard to do and it does give all applications (J2EE, .NET, Perl, etc) a
> common way to log stuff. On the other hand they have tools like
> HP/Openview which can already go out and read the Windows EventLog, text
> files or whatever else. You can even send WMI events or SNMP traps if
> necessary.
>
> Given that there are choices and trade-offs to be made here, I'm curious
> to
> know what other people think. What has been tried? Has anybody actually
> put a centralized logging web-service in to production? What were the
> results? Is it still being used?
>
> Jake Watkins
> JakeW@nospam-guerillaprogrammer.com
> EAI Architect - MCSD - C#, Web-Services, WSE, BizTalk 2004, SharePoint
> 2003, InfoPath
> Cell - 469-855-5919
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