Hi. I am committer on the Apache Log4j 2 project. We are working on providing garbage-free logging, as described here: http://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/manual/garbagefree.html
I work on the Kafka appender in Log4j 2: http://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/manual/appenders.html#KafkaAppender https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/tree/master/log4j-core/src/main/java/org/apache/logging/log4j/core/appender/mom/kafka I am now looking into if it is feasible to support garbage-free operation with the Kafka appender. This would require some changes in the Kafka client library. The first step would be to make it possible to send a message without creating a new ProducerRecord object each time. Maybe an additional "low-level" send method can be added to the Producer interface with unrolled arguments, like this: /** * Send the given record asynchronously and return a future which will eventually contain the response information. * * @param topic The topic the record will be appended to * @param key The key that will be included in the record, or {@literal null} for no key * @param value The record contents * * @return A future which will eventually contain the response information */ public Future<RecordMetadata> send(String topic, byte[] key, byte[] value); Perhaps it would be good to bypass key and value serializers in this case. -- [image: MagineTV] *Mikael Ståldal* Senior software developer *Magine TV* mikael.stal...@magine.com Grev Turegatan 3 | 114 46 Stockholm, Sweden | www.magine.com Privileged and/or Confidential Information may be contained in this message. If you are not the addressee indicated in this message (or responsible for delivery of the message to such a person), you may not copy or deliver this message to anyone. In such case, you should destroy this message and kindly notify the sender by reply email.
