With SmartInspect 3.0 we are introducing a complete new (service) application : the SmartInspect Router. The Router can receive logging data via TCP/IP and named pipes from multiple applications and besides other things, route it to log files.
The SmartInspect Router service application is ideal for debugging and monitoring complex production systems. And because the Router […]
Also part of SmartInspect 3.0 is a new protocol for transferring log data to the Console over named pipes. Why did we add another live logging protocol to SmartInspect when there’s already the TCP protocol?
Named pipes have two significant advantages. They are way faster (factor 2-3 in our tests) and a (re-)connect attempt is just […]
Also new in SmartInspect 3.0 is encryption support for log files. It is not unusual to write proprietary and sensitive information (such as implementation details) to log files that have to be protected from third-parties or even customers.
Some SmartInspect users have already implemented encryption support on their own and we are happy that the upcoming […]
One of my favorite new features of the upcoming SmartInspect 3.0 is support for asynchronous logging. What asynchronous logging basically does is to move the protocol/connection related operations (such as writing a packet or doing a reconnect attempt) from your application thread into a dedicated logging thread.
One thing to note is that we did not […]
Just like other logging tools, SmartInspect allows you to configure logging options via configuration files. But just how useful are configuration files on a production system really, when changes are only picked up when the application is restarted?
To make configuration files more useful in production environments, we added a new feature to SmartInspect 3.0 that […]
This is the first part of a series showing some of the major new features and improvements of the upcoming SmartInspect 3.0 release. Yep, that’s right; SmartInspect 3.0 is coming very soon now! As with the previous major release, it will contain quite a few new features that are directly based on customer feedback. We […]
If you are into Delphi, you have probably already seen all the blog postings about Tiburon (the next Delphi version) from the CodeGear Embarcadero staff on DelphiFeeds.com. Besides working on SmartInspect 3.0 (more about this in a few days), we have also worked on porting SmartInspect to Tiburon in the recent weeks.
As you might already […]
We’ve released two new EAP versions in the last few days. On Thursday, we released the 3.0.2 EAP which fixes a few problems in the Console/Configuration Builder (most of the Console bugs were related to the shutdown behavior and pipe server). And a few minutes ago, I uploaded the new 3.0.3 version which introduces a […]
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We are lucky to get positive feedback about SmartInspect regularly, but once in a while there is an email or blog comment that really stands out. Kevin Powick of Trident Information Systems sent us such an email and we are happy that Kevin allowed us to publish it:
“I’m writing to tell you how pleased I […]
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