Log4j2 Kafka application fails application startup

[Bhavesh Patel]

 Hi Log4j2 developers,                                   Do we have a status on 
bug (https://jira.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-2162)? Or is there a workaround 
for this issue? We are moving from log4j1 to log4j2 and will be using the Kafka 
appender for our production systems. This would be a major issue for us that if 
kafka server is down, the application itself fails to start up and would result 
in loss of revenues. IS there any recommendation to handle/bypass initializing 
the appender. We also have a rolling file appender which we can fallback to.
Regards,Bhavesh.