# benaadams/Ben.Demystifier

High performance understanding for stack traces (Make error logs more productive)

Repository: https://github.com/benaadams/Ben.Demystifier
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/bendemystifier
Language: C#
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: stack-traces, aspnet-core, dotnet, dotnet-core, error-handling, error-messages, exceptions
Last push: 2024-03-14T06:29:09+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3232, "days_push": 902, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2867, forks 122 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:26.775678+00:00)

## What it is
A high-performance .NET library that renders stack traces with modern C# 7.0+ features (async, lambdas, generics, iterators) in a format that matches the original source code. It makes exception output and error logs significantly easier to read and mentally parse.

## Use cases
- make exception stack traces readable in C# error logs
- resolve async/await and lambda frames back to source code in stack traces
- improve productivity when debugging .NET exceptions
- replace Environment.StackTrace with a cleaner enhanced stack trace
- format stack traces for ASP.NET Core error reporting
- debug compiler-generated methods like iterators and local functions

## When to choose
- you are building .NET applications and want human-readable exception stack traces
- your error logs are hard to parse due to compiler-generated method names
- you use modern C# features like async/await, lambdas, and generics heavily
- you want an inspectable list of stack frames in your diagnostics tooling

## When to avoid
- you are not on the .NET platform
- you need machine-parsed stack traces with raw IL method names for automated tooling
- your runtime already provides demystified stack traces (newer .NET versions incorporate similar formatting)

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: stable
- function: error-handling, logging, developer-tools
- domain: developer-tools
- platform: dotnet, cross-platform
- tags: stack-traces, exceptions, csharp, diagnostics, nuget, debugging, dotnet

## Member repositories
- benaadams/Ben.Demystifier (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:26.775678+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:48:28.767771+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/benaadams/Ben.Demystifier (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:26.775678+00:00, sha fd2748dabd96)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.