Re: Flume Appender

2012-12-04 Thread Ralph Goers
I will check with the QA engineer who ran our tests. However, you might want to test with Flume 1.3.0 which was just released. We actually use the CDH version of Flume from Cloudera and so our tests had many of the fixes that are in 1.3. I'm not sure what if what we were measuring is what you

Re: Flume Appender

2012-12-04 Thread Ralph Goers
One other thing I just remembered. When you are using the embedded appender you are writing to the embedded flume. In our testing we found that we were getting control back in our application long before the embedded Flume had a chance to forward all the messages to the remote agent. If the

Re: exception logging

2012-12-04 Thread Ralph Goers
No, you aren't confused. When the EnhancedPatternLayout was incorporated from Log4j 1.x it doesn't actually do that. In looking at the code it turns out the WriterAppender is formatting the throwable, not the PatternLayout. That behavior isn't correct. If you could create a Jira issue for