Hi, for our ec2 instances (with limited diskspace) we like to have a simple Appender that ships its logs to s3. It seems there is no "standard" way of doing this. There are some ideas, but they doesn't seem completed at the first glance [0] ... [3]
But before starting a new n-th S3Appender project, I like to ask whether you think it would be a great idea? At the most simplest stage we could think of an extension of the RollingFileAppender. That Appender is then usable on any machine and in every infrastructure that has http access to s3 If this is done, maybe it would be useful to have a more ec2 coupled appender. That appender could know more about its environment. With this, it would be possible to let log4j organize the "upload"-path. E.g.: <bucket>/<instanceId || ipaddress>. Or Information about the VPC settings, userscripts, ... What do you think? Thanks for you feedback, Christian. [0] https://github.com/ryanhosp/mldx-log-appenders [1] http://aws.amazon.com/code/Amazon-S3/4032 [2] http://s3appender.codeplex.com/ [3] https://github.com/dialt0ne/rotate-to-s3
