If a sequence of execution for a user follows is handled by one thread (often the case in j2ee) then look at "fish tagging", MDC. Log4j2 can put user and any other context in a thread Local object behind the scenes.
http://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/manual/thread-context.html curt -----Original Message----- From: Michael Wechner [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2013 10:35 AM To: Log4J Users List Subject: Logging only particular users Hi We are using log4j for many years now for our open source CMS www.yanel.org and it works really great and I really would like to thank everyone who contributed to log4j. Over the years we are experiencing that more and more people are using our software, which is very nice, but it also makes it harder to debug. Hence I had the idea that it would be nice if one could filter the log file, such that one would see only the log statements generated by requests of a particular user. I guess a simple way to accomplish this would be to add the user or session id to the log statement and then to grep for this user or session id. But it seems to me a bit crude and hence I wanted to ask if somebody might have tried something similar? Thanks Michael --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
