How do I enable logging and auditing in WCF?

You can use the built in WCF logging:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms730064.aspx

It looks like this:

                                  type="System.Diagnostics.XmlWriterTraceListener"
                 initializeData="c:\logs\messages.svclog" />

             logEntireMessage="true"
         logMalformedMessages="false"
         logMessagesAtServiceLevel="true"
         logMessagesAtTransportLevel="false"
         maxMessagesToLog="3000"
         maxSizeOfMessageToLog="2000"/>

Or you can always build your own custom logger. Each time you process a call to the web service, you also call your own logger. Probably this would write a record to a database table. You would record the date, time, caller, maybe the values passed in by the caller, etc. Nothing complicated. It would take you less than a day to build. If you want to do detailed auditing, this may be the way to go.

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Andrew Fenster15y ago
You can use the built in WCF logging:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms730064.aspx

It looks like this:



                                  type="System.Diagnostics.XmlWriterTraceListener"
                 initializeData="c:\logs\messages.svclog" />




             logEntireMessage="true"
         logMalformedMessages="false"
         logMessagesAtServiceLevel="true"
         logMessagesAtTransportLevel="false"
         maxMessagesToLog="3000"
         maxSizeOfMessageToLog="2000"/>

Or you can always build your own custom logger. Each time you process a call to the web service, you also call your own logger. Probably this would write a record to a database table. You would record the date, time, caller, maybe the values passed in by the caller, etc. Nothing complicated. It would take you less than a day to build. If you want to do detailed auditing, this may be the way to go.
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