Trace wcf service

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<system.diagnostics>
    <sources>
        <source name="System.ServiceModel"
                switchValue="Error, ActivityTracing"
                propagateActivity="true">
            <listeners>
                <add name="traceListener"
                     type="System.Diagnostics.XmlWriterTraceListener"
                     initializeData= "c:\logs\Traces.svclog" />
            </listeners>
        </source>
    </sources>
</system.diagnostics>

Hi, I use this config section to trace just the errors from the WCF service, but when I open my svclog file I can see all the activity on the service. How can I log only the errors in my svclog file.

This link has exactly what you want: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4222023/wcf-tracing-of-only-failed-requests — choudhury smrutiranjan parida, Sep 16 '13 at 09:40

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 16 '13 at 09:30

Remove "ActivtiyTracing" from the switchValue Attribute

<system.diagnostics>
    <sources>
      <source name="System.ServiceModel"
              switchValue="Error"
              propagateActivity="true">
        <listeners>
          <add name="traceListener"
              type="System.Diagnostics.XmlWriterTraceListener"
              initializeData= "c:\logs\Traces.svclog" />
        </listeners>
      </source>
    </sources>
  </system.diagnostics>

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 16 '13 at 09:34

You can control Tracing by settings the Switch attribute :

 <configuration>
 <system.diagnostics>
    <switches>
       <add name="mySwitch" value="4" />
    </switches>
 </system.diagnostics>

The corresponding values are this :

    Trace Level

Off : 0
Error : 1
Warning : 2
Info : 3
Verbose : 4

On MSDN you will find more explanation

TraceLevel Enumeration

Trace wcf service

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