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Filtering ASP health monitoring events

I've recently added ASP.NET health monitoring to my site. Right now its setup with just a single rule:

<add name="Email Event Monitor" 
     eventName="Application Lifetime Events" 
     provider="MailWebEventProvider" 
     profile="Default" minInstances="1" 
     maxLimit="Infinite" minInterval="00:01:00" custom="" />

The problem is my site uses a CMS and I am constantly getting spammed with "Application compilation is starting." events. How can I filter out these events?

Also, where is the list of possible values for the eventName attribute of the rules?

Solution

  • I would change the eventName from "Appliction Lifetime Events" to "All Errors", that way you will only get errors, rather than life-cycle events.

    You can get the list of possible values for eventName on your system from your root web.config file (located in %windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\framework_version\CONFIG) in the <eventMappings> section of <healthMonitoring>.