I've got to say that I use MarkerFilters all the time, but I still need to refresh my brain when I've not used them in a while.
If providing a LevelRangeFilter would be less confusing, then perhaps we should write one. Gary On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 7:09 PM, Nicholas Duane <[email protected]> wrote: > Maybe. However, I'm having a hard time following what the configuration > is saying and thus have no idea what I would need to put in the > configuration. Here is a snippet from that post: > > <!-- Now deny warn, error and fatal messages --> > > <ThresholdFilter level="warn" onMatch="DENY" > onMismatch="NEUTRAL"/> > > <ThresholdFilter level="error" onMatch="DENY" > onMismatch="NEUTRAL"/> > <ThresholdFilter level="fatal" onMatch="DENY" > onMismatch="NEUTRAL"/> > > <!-- This filter accepts info, warn, error, fatal and denies > debug/trace --> > > <ThresholdFilter level="info" onMatch="ACCEPT" > onMismatch="DENY"/> > > > The top three seem as if they would deny warn, error and fatal, yet the > third says it accepts info, warn, error and fatal. And while I understand > those in isolation, I think, I have no idea how the <filters> composite > would handle this. Why are the first three needed? How does the > CompositeFilter work? Does it try to match on each filter in the list of > stop as soon as it gets a DENY? > > What if I wanted to setup a filter which just accepted WARN? And on top > of that ensure that if anyone defined any custom levels which are maybe > just 1 away from WARN in either direction that those don't make it in the > appender. How would you do that? > > How I did this with the log4net LevelRangeFilter was to set the levelMin > and levelMax to the same value. > > Thanks, > Nick > > > Subject: Re: range filter? > > From: [email protected] > > Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 09:12:29 +0900 > > To: [email protected] > > > > You misread the comment. The commentor basically told me the answer > works with a minor change, and that he would mark the question as "done" if > I would edit my answer (which I did). > > > > So the answer works and seems to apply to your use case, no? The > question is if it also works with custom levels. > > > > Sent from my iPhone > > > > > On 2015/08/26, at 8:49, Nicholas Duane <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > Thanks. I checked out the link. It seems they were trying to do > something similar to me. I see the last comment on that is that it doesn't > work. > > > > > > There is another post afterwards which uses the ThresholdFilter. > However the ThresholdFilter won't work as that allows, or denys, all levels > greater than or equal to or less than or equal to the level. I need to > filter a specific range of levels. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Nick > > > > > >> Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 08:27:04 +0900 > > >> Subject: Re: range filter? > > >> From: [email protected] > > >> To: [email protected] > > >> > > >> Can you try something similar to this > > >> > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24695133/log4j2-filter-particular-level-in-apender/24697002#24697002 > > >> and see if that works with custom levels as well? > > >> > > >>> On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 6:04 AM, Nicholas Duane <[email protected]> > wrote: > > >>> > > >>> I've tried a couple different combinations and so far no luck. > Here's > > >>> the current configuration I tested with which doesn't work: > > >>> > > >>> <File ...> > > >>> <PatternLayout> > > >>> ... > > >>> </PatternLayout> > > >>> <Filters> > > >>> <ThresholdFilter level="INFO" onMatch="DENY"/> > > >>> <ThresholdFilter level="DEBUG" onMatch="ACCEPT"/> > > >>> </Filters> > > >>> </File> > > >>> > > >>> The > > >>> use case for why I want such a filter is to forward a range of events > > >>> to an appender. The threshold filter won't work because it will send > > >>> all events matching a certain level and lower to the appender. For > > >>> instance, I might want all DEBUG, TRACE and VERBOSE events going to > one > > >>> appender. All INFO, ERROR and WARN events going to another appender. > > >>> All BUSINESS events (my custom) level, going to yet another appender. > > >>> > > >>> Thanks, > > >>> Nick > > >>> > > >>>> Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2015 13:17:44 -0700 > > >>>> Subject: Re: range filter? > > >>>> From: [email protected] > > >>>> To: [email protected] > > >>>> > > >>>> When you get it working, it sounds like it would make a nice > addition to > > >>>> the FAQ with a description of your use case. > > >>>> > > >>>> Gary > > >>>> > > >>>> On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 1:11 PM, Ralph Goers < > [email protected] > > >>>> > > >>>> wrote: > > >>>> > > >>>>> I believe two threshold filters inside a composite filter should > should > > >>>>> work provided you have the onMatch and onMismatch set > appropriately. > > >>>>> > > >>>>> Ralph > > >>>>> > > >>>>> > > >>>>>> On Aug 25, 2015, at 12:36 PM, Nicholas Duane <[email protected]> > wrote: > > >>>>>> > > >>>>>> I'm looking for a range filter in log4j2. I see there is on in > > >>> log4net > > >>>>> and it appears there was one written by someone for log4j 1. Just > > >>>>> wondering if there is something 'out of the box' in log4j2 that > will > > >>>>> accomplish the same? 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