Every developer needs to have a good logging tool. Unfortunately, what I mostly see happening is developers keeping up with the latest and greatest of everything but logging. Run it through Log4Net or NLog into a text file and that's it. No richness at all. Welcome to ReflectInsight.

In this chapter, we will:

• Discuss ReflectInsight and how it provides rich logging capabilities
• Discuss all the options available to configure ReflectInsight

If you have not used ReflectInsight from ReflectSoftware before, you are going to love this chapter. It is so incredibly important to have the right logging tool, especially in machine learning. You absolutely need to know what's going on inside your algorithm, and ReflectSoftware has the richest logging capabilities around. Especially when it comes to machine learning algorithms, there is hands down, nothing that comes close. And when and if you move into deep learning, you are going to be very happy that you can see what is going on. With an algorithm running for possibly days, the insight you receive from the right kind of logging is invaluable.

ReflectInsight is comprised of a Software Development Kit (SDK), a router, a Log Viewer, and Live Viewer. We'll take each one separately and discuss them in detail. We'll start with the router.