How to suppress logging message for nHibernate

log4net, nhibernate

Solution

You can add a logger for nHibernate and set up a different level:

<logger name="NHibernate" additivity="false">
    <level value="WARN"/>
    <appender-ref ref="RollingFileAppender"/>
</logger>

Problem

I am using log4Net in my application which also uses nHibernate. Now my eventlogger is flooded with nHibernate messages which I want to suppress. I have tried this but it did not work. ``` <log4net> <appender name="EventLogAppender" type="log4net.Appender.EventLogAppender"> <param name="LogName" value="App Log" /> <param name="ApplicationName" value="DataService" /> <layout type="log4net.Layout.PatternLayout"> <conversionPattern value="%date [%thread] %-5level %logger [%property{NDC}] - %message%newline" /> </layout> <filter type="log4net.Filter.LoggerMatchFilter"> <loggerToMatch value="NHibernate*" /> <acceptOnMatch value="false" /> </filter> </appender> <root> <priority value="ALL"/> <appender-ref ref="EventLogAppender"/> </root> </log4net> ```

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