Hello all, I've been working on a project to replace the Tomcat server logging (catalina + access) with structured logging via log4j2. These logs need to be written to desk (a mounted NFS share) where they will be processed by another collector to be sent to multiple destinations.
I've experimented with a few different layouts and the one that includes all of the data I need without any extraneous fields that can't be excluded (JsonLayout...) is GelfLayout. My issue with this one is there is no option to add a newline or separating character between each log event when logging to console or a file. I've taken a look at the specification of the format and it doesn't seem to prohibit this at all (it actually doesn't cover any case where you're not sending the format over TCP or UDP) and this is a requirement for our log parser (fluentd) as it uses newlines to determine when new events have been written to the log files. Is there anything I'm missing here that would allow me to manually add newlines so that I can get this working? Perhaps the ability to pass the results of GelfLayout into a PatternLayout where I can manually add the newline or some parameter of the console or file appenders that forces the character be added that I'm not seeing? I would prefer to avoid having to write my own format using PatternLayout or have to use parsing to drop the extraneous keys from JsonLayout (and using up extra disk space in the process). Thanks for any assistance, Reilly -- Reilly Brogan System Engineer Tevera 1-(715)-245-8044 [email protected]
