You should take a look at the routing appender for supporting what you want to do. You can certainly keep the same logger name. You’d simply route log events based on other metadata. See: http://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/manual/appenders.html#RoutingAppender
On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 06:35 Lars-Fredrik Smedberg <itsme...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi > > We have different appenders, one file appender and one syslog appender > amongst others. We want the file appender to use a normal Logger and the > syslog appender using an AsyncLogger. When the different > applications/functions perform the logging they don't know if it will end > up in the file appender only or in both the file appender and syslog > appender. The syslog appender have a filter (AlertFilter) that decides if > the log event will be accepted or not. The file appender has no filter. > > The configuration looks like below (important parts included, some > attributes masked): > > Any suggestion on how to be able to use the same logger name (which > obviously is not allowed) or achieve something that works the same way? > > Best regards, preciate any help > LF > > <Configuration status="debug" packages="xyz"> > <Appenders> > <Console name="ConsoleLogAppender" target="SYSTEM_OUT"> > <PatternLayout pattern="%m"/> > </Console> > <Syslog name="AlertLogAppender" host="xyz" port="xyz" protocol="TCP" > format="RFC5424" facility="LOCAL6" > includeMDC="false" enterpriseNumber="xyz" appName="xyz" > newLine="true" messageId="Alert" id="App"> > <AlertFilter onMatch="ACCEPT" onMismatch="DENY"/> > </Syslog> > <RollingFile name="RollingFileAppender" fileName="logs/application.log" > filePattern="logs/application.log.%i.gz" immediateFlush="true" > > <PatternLayout pattern =%m%n"/> > <Policies> > <OnStartupTriggeringPolicy/> > <SizeBasedTriggeringPolicy size="10 MB"/> > </Policies> > <DefaultRolloverStrategy max="2"/> > </RollingFile> > </Appenders> > <Loggers> > <AsyncLogger name="foo" level="info" additivity="false"> > <AppenderRef ref="AlertLogAppender"/> > </AsyncLogger> > <Logger name="foo" level="info" additivity="false"> > <AppenderRef ref="RollingFileAppender"/> > </Logger> > <Root level="warn"> > <AppenderRef ref="ConsoleLogAppender"/> > </Root> > </Loggers> > </Configuration> > > -- > Med vänlig hälsning / Best regards > > Lars-Fredrik Smedberg > > STATEMENT OF CONFIDENTIALITY: > The information contained in this electronic message and any > attachments to this message are intended for the exclusive use of the > address(es) and may contain confidential or privileged information. If > you are not the intended recipient, please notify Lars-Fredrik Smedberg > immediately at itsme...@gmail.com, and destroy all copies of this > message and any attachments. >
