configure and watch log4net using blob store

Question

we are using log4net with custom appenders to log our stuff from azure machines to table store, and that works fine. What we need now is to use blob-store to configure logging for all our instances in one place and be able to modify it on run-time, just modify the config file in blob store and few moments later all my machines should know about this change.

Simply said what I need is:

XmlConfigurator.Configure(Uri blobStoreUri, bool watch=true)

or even better:

XmlConfigurator.ConfigureAndWatch(string blobStoreUrl, TimeSpan refreshInterval)

I googled arround but was not able to find anything like that. What would be the best way to implement this or do you know any similar implementations of this?

thanks almir

Answer 1

this is solution we implemented than

https://gist.github.com/kaza/9207832

cheers

Answer 2

I couldn't find a way to configure log4net to look for a file stored in the blob, but the windows azure diagnostics provides a way to specify the configuration information in a log file that's stored in blob. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/hh411551.aspx