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Ralph Goers commented on LOG4J2-1137:
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The AsyncAppender wouldn't really do what I am proposing. All the events would 
have already gone through filtering before landing on the AsyncAppender. 

> Allow events to be buffered until something triggers and causes them to be 
> logged.
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>
>                 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, the ReliabilityStrategies could be modified to 
> work with the LogBuffer or a BufferingReliabilityWrapperStrategy could be 
> created to wrap the existing strategies.
> Note - no code has been written for this yet. I'd want to figure out what the 
> configuration might look like before starting.



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