Raygun with log4net not logging

Question

I have a simple console app. Downloaded log4net nuget package as well as log4net raygun nuget package: https://www.nuget.org/packages/log4net.Raygun/. I've set up my app to log exceptions and info messages and I do get those in my log file, but NOT in raygun dashboard, Nor do I get emails from raygun.io. What am I doing wrong?

private static readonly ILog Log = LogManager.GetLogger(MethodBase.GetCurrentMethod().DeclaringType);

private static void CurrentDomain_UnhandledException(object sender, UnhandledExceptionEventArgs e)
{
    Log.Error(e);
}

private static void Main(string[] args)
{
    XmlConfigurator.Configure();

    // Unhandled exceptions
    AppDomain.CurrentDomain.UnhandledException += CurrentDomain_UnhandledException;
throw new Exception("test exception");

}

Web.Config:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<configuration>
  <configSections>
    <!-- log4net -->
    <section name="log4net" type="log4net.Config.Log4NetConfigurationSectionHandler, log4net" />
  </configSections>

  <log4net>
    <appender name="LogFileAppender" type="log4net.Appender.RollingFileAppender">
      <file value="ErrorLog//ErrorLog.txt" />
      <lockingModel type="log4net.Appender.FileAppender+MinimalLock" />
      <appendToFile value="true" />
      <rollingStyle value="Size" />
      <maxSizeRollBackups value="2" />
      <maximumFileSize value="1MB" />
      <staticLogFileName value="true" />
      <layout type="log4net.Layout.PatternLayout">
        <param name="ConversionPattern" value="%d [%t] %-5p %c %m%n" />
      </layout>
    </appender>

    <appender name="RaygunAppender" type="log4net.Raygun.RaygunAppender, log4net.Raygun">
      <threshold value="DEBUG" />
      <apiKey value="MY SUPER AWESOME KEY HERE" />
      <!-- Attempt to send errors to raygun 15 times -->
      <retries value="15" />
      <!-- Wait 1 minute between retry attempts -->
      <timeBetweenRetries value="00:01:00" />
      <!-- Toggles whether to only send exceptions to raygun, or to also send messages logged to ERROR -->
      <onlySendExceptions value="false" />
      <!-- Optional filters for filtering exceptions and messages before sending to raygun -->
      <!--<exceptionFilter value="SomeOtherAssembly.SensitiveInformationMessageFilter, SomeOtherAssembly" />
      <renderedMessageFilter value="SomeOtherAssembly.SensitiveInformationMessageFilter, SomeOtherAssembly" />-->
    </appender>

    <root>
      <level value="ALL" />
      <appender-ref ref="LogFileAppender" />
      <appender-ref ref="RaygunAppender" />
    </root>
  </log4net>

    <startup> 
        <supportedRuntime version="v4.0" sku=".NETFramework,Version=v4.5" />
    </startup>
  <runtime>
    <assemblyBinding xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1">
      <dependentAssembly>
        <assemblyIdentity name="log4net" publicKeyToken="669e0ddf0bb1aa2a" culture="neutral" />
        <bindingRedirect oldVersion="0.0.0.0-1.2.13.0" newVersion="1.2.13.0" />
      </dependentAssembly>
    </assemblyBinding>
  </runtime>
</configuration>

EDIT: I've added debugging and "XmlConfigurator.Configure();" this is what I get (However, still no errors show up in Raygun.io dashboard) :

...
log4net: RaygunAppender: Building Raygun message
log4net: RaygunAppender: Resolving application assembly
log4net: RaygunAppender: No exception object found in error, creating raygun error message from the rendered message and calling class
log4net: RaygunAppender: Sending Raygun message in a background task. Retries: '15', TimeBetweenRetries: '00:01:00'

Answer 1

You need to tell log4net to read the configuration, add the following line in you main method:

log4net.Config.XmlConfigurator(Watch = true);

Or put the following attribute in your assamblyinfo.cs:

[assembly: log4net.Config.XmlConfigurator(Watch = true)]

If that is not working you can enable log4net internal debugging to see what is going on in the log4net internal code:

<configuration>
...
    <appSettings>
        <add key="log4net.Internal.Debug" value="true"/>
    </appSettings>

...

    <system.diagnostics>
        <trace autoflush="true">
            <listeners>
                <add 
                    name="textWriterTraceListener" 
                    type="System.Diagnostics.TextWriterTraceListener" 
                    initializeData="C:\tmp\log4net.txt" />
            </listeners>
        </trace>
    </system.diagnostics>
</configuration>

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