Flume Appender

2012-10-25 Thread SimonMo
Hi, does anybody know how stable is the flume appender embedded? I have a network with nodes logging 20.000 logs/sec and i want to use Log4j 2 - Flume - Elasticsearch. Is this a good approach? I could use additionally a FailoverAppender to get my logs on a second route to my server... hmm, i'm

Re: Flume Appender

2012-10-25 Thread Christian Grobmeier
Simon, log4j 2.0 including Flume Adapter is in beta. I don't know anybody who tried it with that metric so far (I might be wrong, Ralph might have done a perf test). Anyway, as with all beta software I recommend you good testing before you put it into production. In any way... at logging we all

Re: Flume Appender

2012-10-25 Thread Ralph Goers
As Christian pointed out, Log4j 2 is still considered beta quality software. While it works fine in the environments I have tested in others are starting to use it in other environments and as they encounter problems and fixes are implemented the quality will improve.That said, I am using the