I believe this is possible, but it’s not trivial. See the discussion here: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-1630
(Shameless plug) Every java main() method deserves http://picocli.info > On Dec 14, 2017, at 2:18, Carlos Terron Bueno <cter...@alienvault.com> wrote: > > rsyslog has an option, > $RepeatedMsgReduction<http://www.rsyslog.com/doc/rsconf1_repeatedmsgreduction.html> > tha can be used to reduce the number of log messages in a system. This > option groups the same messages, printing the message in the record and then > a line with the number of times it has been repeated. > > Is it possible to do the same thing with log4j? > > Thanks > > Carlos