You can log WCF message at two levels one is service level and the other is transport level. Service level:-In this the messages are logged as they enter the user code or leave the user code. Transport level: - In this the messages are logged as they are ready to be encoded / decoded. All transport level, infrastructure messages and also reliable messaging is logged. You specify the message levels in the diagnostics node as shown in the below code snippet.
<system.serviceModel>
<diagnostics>
<messageLogging
logEntireMessage="true"
logMalformedMessages="false"
logMessagesAtServiceLevel="false"
logMessagesAtTransportLevel="true"
maxMessagesToLog="3000"
maxSizeOfMessageToLog="10000"/>
</diagnostics>
</system.serviceModel>
‘Messagelogging’ also has other attributes , below is the short description about the same.
Attribute |
Description |
logEntireMessage |
Should the entire message be logged on only the header. |
logMalformedMessages |
Should malformed messages be logged. |
logMessagesAtServiceLevel |
Should service-level messages be logged. |
logMessagesAtTransportLevel |
Should transport level messages be logged. |
maxMessageToLog |
Number indicating how many messages should be logged. |
maxSizeOfMessageToLog |
The default value is 256Kb. Max size of the message log. |
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