Ralph Goers created LOG4J2-1137:
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             Summary: Allow events to be buffered until something triggers and 
causes them to be logged.
                 Key: LOG4J2-1137
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-1137
             Project: Log4j 2
          Issue Type: New Feature
          Components: Core
    Affects Versions: 2.4
            Reporter: Ralph Goers


In many cases logging is filtered in production to reduce the overhead of 
logging. Unfortunately, this means that when an error occurs there may not be 
enough logging information available to diagnose the problem. On the other 
hand, if filtering is minimized then the amount of data being logged can be 
overwhelming.

This enhancement would allow log events to be written to a buffer and not 
processed any further until a triggering event occurs. Once that trigger occurs 
all the events in the buffer would be logged in sequence and pass through the 
normal filtering process.  Some log events that are deemed "special" would need 
to be allowed to bypass the buffer and immediately be processed.

One way to accomplish this would be to add a new LogBuffer component to the 
configuration. If configured each Logger's PrivateConfig would be extended with 
a BufferedPrivateConfig that would interact with the LogBuffer and then pass 
the LogEvents to the PrivateConfig when appropriate.



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