ReflectInsight Feedback
Welcome to the ReflectInsight UserVoice site. Your feedback is very valuable to us.
Let us know what you would like to see in future versions of the ReflectInsight. This site is for suggestions and ideas. If you need to file a bug, please email our support department at: support@reflectsoftware.com.
We look forward to hearing from you!
Thanks
ReflectInsight Team
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Update your software regularly
It's been almost 10 months since last release and there are numerous good ideas for improvements here on the user voice pages.As a paying customer it saddens me that there doesn't seem to be any more development going on. Not even any new blog entries suggesting that there is still ongoing work. Please don't give up on this otherwise good software (and if really need to please consider to open source it)
3 votesHi Jimmy and thank your for your feedback. I couldn’t agree more with you and I’m sorry we haven’t been able to release anything sooner. We are currently working on some minor changes to the library which we hope to release by end of April 2017. There is also an update to the website, docs and something new coming out, which we’ll announce when ready. Rest assured this product is still alive.
The ReflectSoftware team.
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following the getting started guide does not create log files
no log files were generated for the viewer to find. I followed the instructions in the getting started page and applied them to my WPF application
1 voteBy default the getting started show the minimal setup and always log to the Live Viewer, but I can see your point so we’ll look at expanding the getting started guides to work in the saving to log files.
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won't you make table, comparing reflectinsight and smartinspect? also thought about your marketing
as title says..
besides, i think marketing is the issue with your product.
i've learned about it from smartinspect forum. i was thinking, may be the product is new, but no, it is here quite a some time already.when i was searching for logging framework in my time, i nevernot even once had seen the word "ReflectInsight". it' all about log4net, smartinspect, nlog and some others.
i think you should widen your interwebs presence.and make a comparison table, yes. especially if it is (objectively) favorites your product
1 voteGreat feedback. We are looking into various marketing strategies. If you have specific places we should target, please let us know. Thank you for your feedback.
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Audible feedback
I want to be able to set up rules, so that when they happen, i get an audible feedback.
For example, for each new exception, i hear some beep!
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Encrypted Logging
Would it be possible to implement encrypted logging, so that all messages stored are unreadable for the people without the password?
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The Live viewer should highlight itself on the Windows task bar when a new event pops up
I would like the viewer to highlight itself on the Windows task bar when a new event pops up.
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Create logging extension for ELMAH
Provide support for elmah.
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Copy/Export selected messages
Provide the capability to copy and/or export only selected messages. This is invaluable when wanting to provide info to others on only selected message types/conditions.
4 votesReflectInsight already provides copy support from any of the grids in the application. You can then paste the information that is currently displayed in the selected row to another application as text. If any columns are hidden, that information won’t be included when the data is copied.
We will look at providing more robust copy and export functionality in a future build.
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Create Heartbeat Listener
One of the huge advantages of your logger is its extensibility using custom listeners. One such useful listener would be a heartbeat monitor that monitors the health of an application.
If you added a Heartbeat message type then this could be filtered and routed to the new listener. We could add our own custom logic to this listener and act accordingly if a heartbeat message had not been received within an allotted timeframe.
I would be really useful to wrap up monitoring logic within the same framework as tracing/profiling and debugging.
Cheers
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Add capability to create User Defined Views based on message contents
Update User Defined View to be able to create a UDV by message contents.
A work around for this right now is to go to the Advanced Search and bookmark all the results. Then use the Bookmarks view as a way of seeing results that you would typically want to show up in a UDV.
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Create Viewer as a User Control so that it can be embedded in your own applications
Create a "Viewer" user control that encapsulates the messages, properties, scratchpad, details, etc. windows of the live/log viewer such that developers could easily include it in their applications where an external viewer is not desired or allowed. This basically is a developers version of a log/live viewer complete with menus, contexts, etc.
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Provide ability to include multiple Extended Properties when creating User Defined View
Currently you can only specify a single Extended Property and Value when creating a User Defined View.
It would be great if you can include multiple extended properties to help refine the user defined view results.
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Configurable Logging - Filtering at the Method Level (source)
First, thanks to both you and Ross for the very prompt answers.
I am familiar with the filtering, but that is on the TYPE of message,
not the source of the message. If I want to turn off all entrance/exit
logging, that's what I'd use. But what if I want to turn off all
logging except for that from a given method, because that method is
where I suspect a problem? I want all the message types, but only from
that given method.Ross's info on enabling/disabling a given instance is closer to the
mark, but is there any way…3 votes -
Watch Graph
Add a 'Watch Graph' panel similar to the scratchpad that allows graphical tracking of object values over time. This can be a line/sparkline, etc. but will plot selected object values over time. Very useful for seeing values over a time period versus the current value in the scratchpad.
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Ability to copy Bookmarks
The ability to copy all bookmarks in the Bookmarks window would be very helpful. For instance, I may do a search for all Errors, bookmark them all, and see 500. Copying all bookmarks (at least the message section) and sending that in an email, inserting into Excel, etc. will be very helpful. I may just want to send all the bookmarked messages in an email to alert another group that a problem is happening, rather than provide details of each problem (general alert).
1 voteThere is already support to copy all bookmarks. Highlight all rows in the Bookmarks pane and press Ctrl+C. Then paste to any editor.
We will investigate into making this more obvious from say the Bookmark pane toolbar.
Thanks for the suggestion.
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Programatically bookmark messages
Add the ability to programatically denote a message a client is sending should be automatically bookmarked in the viewer.
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High Volume handling for Semantic Logging
For the semantic logging, the sample should include showing how to use semantic logging fo high volume transactions. The current implementation will work well (using WriteEvent) but not for high volume transactions. Might be good for others to see how to do this as well just in case they copy/paste and go from existing samples.
[NonEvent]
public unsafe void WriteEvent_Internal(int eventId, String strFmt, int arg1)
{
EventData* dataDesc = stackalloc EventData[2];
dataDesc[0].DataPointer = System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.StringToHGlobalAuto(strFmt);
dataDesc[0].Size = strFmt.Length;
dataDesc[1].DataPointer = (IntPtr)(&arg1);
dataDesc[1].Size = 4;
WriteEventCore(eventId, 2, dataDesc);
}
[NonEvent]
public unsafe void WriteEvent_Internal(int eventId, String str1, String str2)
{
EventData* dataDesc…1 vote -
8 votes
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Add timeline graph to user defined view
Add a time line graph and summary section for a user defined view. This should be configurable to show/hide.
Section should show a timeline graph of the time span for the user defined view with vertical lines showing perhaps the number of messages received per hour (of something else).
Maybe show other information like the number of messages for each give type, only for those logged in the user defined view.
Example: Say 2 errors come in and 55 messages and 3 warnings.
Errors: 2
Messages: 55
Warning: 32 votes -
Ability to save and load user defined views without having to recreate or make them shared
The ability to create user defined views and have the option to make them shared is great, but it does have its limitations.
It would be great if I could save my UDV’s to a shared user repository and them have the ability to load in those saved UDV’s at any time and session.
Here is an example:
I create a user defined view for errors, exceptions and fatals. I then save this UDV to the viewer user settings. Then at any point in the future, for any logging session, I can pull up this saved UDV against the log…
3 votes
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