Those classes are to receive log events from a database table. Log4j1 and log4cxx can write log messages directly to a database; I'm not sure about log4j2.
I'm not sure exactly what it does/how it does it, but it's going to effectively do something like "SELECT * FROM Logs" and then pass those log messages up to other parts of chainsaw. -Robert Middleton On Tue, Oct 24, 2023 at 4:20 PM Matt Sicker <m...@musigma.org> wrote: > > If you use Log4j in Chainsaw, you could set up a JDBC appender or similar to > forward things along. The Flume appender could be useful there, too, but that > sort of moves the database configuration into your Flume config. > > > On Oct 24, 2023, at 3:14 PM, Christian Grobmeier <grobme...@apache.org> > > wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > in this package: > > org.apache.log4j.db > > > > all classes are commented. I am tempted to just remove it in full, but I am > > not sure what i was supposed to do. > > > > Docs read: > > > > "Provides means to append logging events into various databases." > > > > Does that mean, Chainsaw would collect logs and then send it to databases? > > Isn't it what Flume (et al) is expected to do? > > > > Kind regards, > > Christian >
