Hi Thomas, SiftingAppender is probably what you are looking for.
https://logback.qos.ch/manual/appenders.html#SiftingAppender -- Ceki Gülcü Sponsoring SLF4J/logback/reload4j at https://github.com/sponsors/qos-ch On 8/30/2022 2:59 PM, Thomas Schittli wrote: > Good afternoon > > > > The documentation for SLF4J and Logback is very detailed 😊, but > unfortunately it is still difficult to understand the various > possibilities and mechanisms, so I have a question: > > > > Is it possible to configure the logback FileAppender > so that it automatically / dynamically creates logfile names based on a > string which the developer passes in e.g. LOGGER.trace()? > > > > The background to the idea is as follows: > > > > 1. The developer is programming a new module (e.g. a configuration manager) > and he would like to have the log entries summarised in a separate > log file. > > 2. Therefore, he calls something like that: LOGGER.trace(“Config-Mgr”, > “Message”) > > 3. SLF4J / Logback automatically reads this string and create this > Logfile: AppLog-Config-Mgr.log > > > 4. The central element is that we do not have to modify logback.xml and > create an appender for each Logfile. > > This means that if the user now calls e.g.: > LOGGER.trace(“User-Actionlog”, “Message”) > then this new log file will created without having to modify > logback.xml: > AppLog-User-Actionlog.log > > > > > Thank you very much for any tips & tricks 😊 > > Thanks a lot, kind regards, > Thomas > > _______________________________________________ logback-user mailing list logback-user@qos.ch http://mailman.qos.ch/mailman/listinfo/logback-user
