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On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 11:50 AM Gary Gregory <[email protected]> wrote: > If you provide a PR for this new appender, please make sure there is no > copying from GPL code... > Thank you! > Gary > > On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 10:57 AM Kevin Meurer <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> That sounds good to me. I would be happy to update the site with >> appropriate language on the different approaches when submitting the >> feature. I'll go ahead and write an appender implementation for you and >> other maintainers to review. I went ahead and opened LOG4J2-2400 to track >> implementation here. >> >> Kevin >> >> On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 12:22 PM, Ralph Goers <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> > OK. I would recommend that the doc for the component describe that use >> > case. I would think we also could add another page or two to the web >> site >> > to compare the various ways of doing these things. >> > >> > Ralph >> > >> > > On Aug 7, 2018, at 8:44 AM, Kevin Meurer <[email protected]> >> > wrote: >> > > >> > > I completely agree that the typical use case of Redis is a distributed >> > > cache. That said, it also functions well as a temporary queue for >> event >> > > data en route to another data store. For example, Redis may be used to >> > > improve the fault-tolerance of a logging pipeline by serving as an >> > > intermediary en route to a separate storage layer (i.e. log4j2 -> >> Redis >> > <- >> > > Logstash -> Elasticsearch). >> > > >> > > >> > > Kafka is well-suited for these use cases, but Redis may be preferred >> if >> > > users want an in-memory broker rather than one that writes to disk. >> > > >> > > >> > > Kevin >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > On 2018/08/07 15:24:31, Ralph Goers <[email protected]> wrote: >> > > >> > >> 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>)> >> > > >> > >> >> > > >> > >> >> > > >> > >> >> > >> > >> > >> >
