I do stuff. Opinions my own.
I've just pushed out an update to Lurgle.Alerting on Nuget. This release adds a Handlebars template option, based on the implementation by Matthew Turner at FluentEmail.Handlebars (github.com). When I came across the FluentEmail.Handlebars package, I was keen to use it, but it was only compiled against .NET Standard 2.1, and...
A new release of Seq.App.EventTimeout is out. This was a little earlier than I planned to release v1.4.x, but there was a bug in the AbstractAPI deserialization as a result of some code refactoring which I'd missed. As usual, you can install Event Timeout for Seq using Seq.App.EventTimeout as the...
I've pushed out updates to Lurgle.Logging and Lurgle.Alerting today. The Lurgle.Logging update is minor - I noticed that Log.Add wasn't correctly passing the calling method, source file, and line number. Lurgle.Alerting has received a more substantial update: This helps to make Lurgle.Alerting even more useful and reliable! You can get...
Another Lurgle Around the time that I tackled my original Serilog logging implementation, I also looked at our email alerting. Emails can be used for a variety of reasons, and it's not uncommon that they are sent as a simple string that concatenates or formats variables. In this scenario, the...
Logging is important Logging is a really important, oft-neglected, aspect of business applications. I can't state that enough. If you don't have good logging, you can't troubleshoot and debug problems, and you have little chance of seeing what's actually going on in your enterprise. In Structured Logging with Seq and Serilog,...
When we investigated OpsGenie, one feature I was attracted to was Heartbeat Monitoring. This is a feature that can help to answer a fundamental problem - "How do you know if you have a major site or infrastructure outage?" There are plenty of ways that you could go about this,...
"Something hasn't happened!" My workplace has quite a number of disparate applications and scripts that drive critical SLAs. Historically, these were managed by exception and emailing errors to various mailboxes. This is a fairly poor approach to managing SLAs, since it is reliant on a human factor - someone has...
The default OpsGenie integration with Jira Service Management has a puzzling omission when it comes to their OpsGenie Edge Connector integration - it doesn't send Priority or Tags. This means that tags won't pass through as labels, and the priority will be at the default. My ideal is that the...
A few years back, I picked up an old "unloved" business application for document handling, and brought it into the modern era. I completed some work on adding automated OCR, running as a service, and then started to enhance it well beyond its original capabilities, such as moving a manual...
I've created a new blog using Publii, Github Pages, and CloudFlare Pages. Why? Because it's interesting, it's free, and it gives me somewhere to put up my thoughts. I've been doing a bunch of interesting things lately and I plan to share them! Previous blogs are not exist. They are...