TracerX Vs. Log4Net

Similarities

Differences

Advantages of TracerX

  1. The logs are much easier to read in the TracerX viewer than in a text editor.
  2. The TracerX viewer allows you to decide what threads, loggers, and trace levels you are interested in after the log is generated (as well as before).
  3. TracerX's implementation of circular logging is better than Log4Net’s RollingFileAppender because TracerX does it all within a single file. In addition, you can designate a portion of the initial logging (containing output from initialization/startup) to be preserved even after the log wraps.
  4. I think TracerX will perform better than Log4Net and I’m sure the files will be significantly smaller as well, though I don’t have hard numbers on that.
  5. TracerX generates one output file per execution of the host application and displays it in chronological order. Log4Net's RollingFileAppender can cause the output from a given execution to begin in the middle of one file and end in another.