Yes, persistent buffering can prevent the data loss but adds to the complexity. 
 The Flume Appender does that.

I will take a look at the scribe appender when I get a chance.

Ralph

On May 1, 2014, at 8:39 AM, Michael Wechner <[email protected]> wrote:

> Am 01.05.14 17:18, schrieb Ralph Goers:
>> I guarantee you, on a busy system with lots of logging sending a SOAP 
>> message for every event will be a problem. 
> 
> I can second/confirm that.
> 
> We have developed such an appender in order to log user requests for
> user tracking and personalization
> 
> https://github.com/wyona/yanel/blob/master/conf/log4j.properties
> 
> whereas see the boosthttp configuration
>> If they are being bundled so that multiple events are sent in each request 
>> that will perform better
> 
> yes, that's what we do
>> but could result in losing all the events that are buffered.
> 
> one can buffer them persistently, or do I misunderstand you?
> 
> I am not sure whether "refactoring"
> https://github.com/joshdevins/log4j-scribe-appender might make sense, but
> it probably makes sense to have a look at it.
> 
> HTH
> 
> Michael
>> 
>> Ralph
>> 
>> 
>> On May 1, 2014, at 7:26 AM, [email protected] wrote:
>> 
>>> Dell - Internal Use - Confidential
>>> Not necessarily. Remember that the people who read these logs are not in 
>>> the processing loop, and therefore do not slow down the process,
>>> What is required is an asynchronous thread or process to do the soap 
>>> transfer during off cycles, and storage to receive the messages from the
>>> Processing stream. Some sort of queuing and thread, or database storage 
>>> might be used.
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Ralph Goers [mailto:[email protected]]
>>> Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2014 11:16 PM
>>> To: Log4J Users List
>>> Subject: Re: Web Service Appender
>>> 
>>> A web service to do what? Logging via SOAP would be extremely slow if every 
>>> log event is a single request. Can you elaborate on what you really want to 
>>> do?
>>> 
>>> Ralph
>>> 
>>> On Apr 30, 2014, at 9:10 PM, Evan J wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Thanks for verifying this. I thought I might be missing an obvious,
>>>> and this has already been implemented by at least someone.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 7:48 PM, Remko Popma wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Evan, no I'm not aware of any appender that logs to a web service.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 9:21 AM, Evan J
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> I searched around, but I could not find an off-the-shelf Appender
>>>>>> that sends logs to a web service. Is there any?
>>>>>> 
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