You made your layout a plugin? If so, make sure you specify its package name in the packages attribute of the configuration element. Then specify
<MyLayout attr1=“” attr2=“”/> Where MyLayout is the name you gave your Layout plugin and attr1 and attr2 are attributes you defined for the layout. Log4j 2 uses plugins so you never specify the name of the class in the configuration. Ralph On Mar 7, 2014, at 5:22 AM, Nicolas Bär <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > I'm trying to use Log4j2 to send certain log messages to Apache Flume. > Flume should then push the messages to Elasticsearch in order to analyze > the data with Kibana. The setup works fine using the JSONLayout, but this > layout does not provide enough flexibility for my use case. Currently the > message is saved to Elasticsearch as one field. Therefore I'd like to > replace the JSONLayout with a custom implementation to extract certain > fields from the log messages. I followed the instructions on the following > page: http://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/manual/extending.html#Layouts > But I'm not able to specify the custom layout in the log4j2.xml file. > What's the correct syntax to do this? > > I tried the <layout> tag and specified my custom class in the name > attribute. This will throw the following error message: ERROR Flume > contains an invalid element or attribute "layout". > > Any help is highly appreciated, thanks. > > Best, > Nicolas --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
