Hey Jerry,
You can use log4j2-logstash-layout
<https://github.com/vy/log4j2-logstash-layout> and customize the entire
JSON schema to suit your needs. Additionally, its is garbage-free and
yields superior performance compared to the default JSONLayout.
Best.
On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 8:44 PM Thome, Jerry <jth...@follett.com> wrote:
> We're using Vert.x and graduated from using JUL to log4j2. Speed and
> functionality are great.
>
> Is there information on the choice to represent the timestamp via
> "instant" as shown below? It's hard to know what that time represents at a
> glance.
>
> ...
> "endOfBatch" : false,
> "loggerFqcn" : "io.vertx.core.logging.Logger",
> "instant" : {
> "epochSecond" : 1548267755,
> "nanoOfSecond" : 66000000
> },
> "threadId" : 20,
> "threadPriority" : 5,
> "source" : {
> ...
>
> As there seem to be very few formatting options with the Json Layout, do
> users tend to customize the entire layout to represent the timestamp in a
> different format?
>
> Thanks,
> Jerry
>
