While I wouldn’t be opposed to a Redis Appender, I would find it a strange use of Redis. Normally, Redis is used as a distributed cache, not as a place to store log evens. Can you explain what the use case would be when using it?
Ralph > On Aug 7, 2018, at 8:05 AM, Kevin Meurer <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I wanted to float the idea of folding a Redis log4j2 appender into the > log4j2 repository or releasing a canonical version under the Apache license. > > As you might be aware, one repository > <https://github.com/vy/log4j2-redis-appender> currently exists to meet this > need, but it is licensed under GPL and therefore not usable for a variety > of contexts. I think of a Redis appender as potentially analogous to the > existing Kafka Appender, as Redis is often used in a similar message broker > context. > > Is this something I could potentially add support for in log4j2? If not, is > there interest in an effort to create a separate repository to meet this > need? > > Any input would be appreciated. > > Thanks, > Kevin Meurer (kmeurer <https://github.com/kmeurer>)
