[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1590?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=14131069#comment-14131069 ]
Neha Narkhede commented on KAFKA-1590: -------------------------------------- [~abhioncbr] We'd rather not include more dependencies just to do logging. The request logger currently uses log4j and you can just override the appender and use it to write a binary log. At the same time, we would also need a tool that can parse and convert the request log to humanly readable text. > Binarize trace level request logging along with debug level text logging > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Key: KAFKA-1590 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1590 > Project: Kafka > Issue Type: Bug > Reporter: Guozhang Wang > Assignee: Abhishek Sharma > Labels: newbie > Fix For: 0.9.0 > > > With trace level logging, the request handling logs can grow very fast > depending on the client behavior (e.g. consumer with 0 maxWait and hence keep > sending fetch requests). Previously we have changed it to debug level which > only provides a summary of the requests, omitting request details. However > this does not work perfectly since summaries are not sufficient for > trouble-shooting, and turning on trace level upon issues will be too late. > The proposed solution here, is to default to debug level logging with trace > level logging printed as binary format at the same time. The generated binary > files can then be further compressed / rolled out. When needed, we will then > decompress / parse the trace logs into texts. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)