AWESOME! Exactly what I was looking for. Thank you Matt!
On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 6:03 PM, Matt Sicker <[email protected]> wrote: > I'd also like to add that you can specify the pattern > %replace{pattern}{regex}{substitution} in a PatternLayout as another way of > doing this. > > > On 1 March 2014 16:41, Matt Sicker <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I'm sorry, I was slightly wrong. You can indeed do exactly what you're > > looking for with PatternLayout. See < > > http://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/manual/layouts.html#PatternLayout> > > for docs. You'll want to use the RegexReplacement configuration. For an > > example config, check out < > > > https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/blob/trunk/log4j-core/src/test/resources/log4j-replace.xml > >. > > It's pretty simple, no Java code required! > > > > > > On 1 March 2014 12:48, Matt Sicker <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> The regex filter would filter which messages get logged to the > configured > >> logger based on regex pattern matching. What you'd want is a Layout > >> (probably a PatternLayout) to specify what fields to log. If that > doesn't > >> solve the problem, a custom Layout class would probably solve the issue. > >> > >> > >> On 28 February 2014 18:04, James Hart <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >>> Hi > >>> > >>> I'm an admin for a java application that uses log4j. > >>> > >>> I'm working with a vendor to see if there's a way to scrub the output > of > >>> their log messages. The output of these messages is quite long (at > least > >>> a > >>> few hundred characters) making the lines difficult to read when > >>> troubleshooting. > >>> > >>> Is there a way to apply a standard log4j filter or layout that will > >>> takes a > >>> regex as input and generate a reduced line with only the bits of text > we > >>> care to see? > >>> > >>> I thought maybe this RegexFilter would do the trick, but I can't quite > >>> tell > >>> by the documentation: > >>> > >>> http://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/manual/filters.html > >>> > >>> Any and all help is much appreciated. > >>> > >>> Thank you. > >>> > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Matt Sicker <[email protected]> > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > Matt Sicker <[email protected]> > > > > > > -- > Matt Sicker <[email protected]> >
