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Living with BlogEngine.net – addendum

by matt 24. March 2009 23:56

I meant this to a part of the last post, but I forgot. One of the really big things that BlogEngine.net gets wrong (really wrong) is the lack of any kind of logging, tracing or health monitoring.

This comes as rather a surprise, seeing as there is so much going on in this project – custom HttpHandlers and HttpModules, different data backends (xml or sql), asynchronous processes, etc. The potential for things going wrong is rather large, and there’s no built in way to diagnose the error – or even to know that there was an error.

And no, there isn’t a patch for this one.

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Comments

4/7/2009 11:09:31 AM #

thank you for this usefull informations.. now i find what i want to know..

gambar lucu | Reply

4/11/2009 3:55:23 AM #

I agree but I haven't had a single problem with my blog. In fact, I couldn't be happier. Blogengine is really almost unbreakable from my experience. So I haven't needed to monitor.

EDI | Reply

4/24/2009 10:22:30 AM #

No problems on my end either, depends what you edit etc...

kamagra | Reply

4/24/2009 1:32:22 PM #

Yeah, I think maybe the tone of this post is a bit too critical. I'm a big fan of BlogEngine.net - I'm using it right now for this blog, writing about it and I'm submitting patches and everything. I really do think it's great.

It's just that logging is massively important in an application like this. You live in blissful ignorance that all is going well. If a visitor hits an error, you'll never know. And BlogEngine does background processing - sending trackbacks, email, etc - there's currently no way of knowing if these are working or not. And these errors can equally be due to configuration errors as well as code errors.

These things should be logged, and it's a shame they're not. But it's still a great product!

Matt

matt | Reply

5/14/2009 10:45:02 AM #

Thanks for spending the time to write this, maybe I could extend the thought leadership and write a 'living with WP' post.

Leadership Style | Reply

6/25/2009 8:05:44 AM #

@ Leadership Style,

I'd love to see a 'living with wp' post - its a good idea, and it will give budding bloggers an idea of what to expect should they join WP, or this thought leadership post if they want to see what blogengine would be like.

Leadership | Reply

6/26/2009 8:20:21 PM #