Hello Ton, Have you tried adding a statusListener on the command line?
See https://logback.qos.ch/manual/configuration.html#logback.statusLC StatusListeners should work the same way in logback version 1.2. Let us know if this helps, -- Ceki Gülcü Sponsoring SLF4J/logback/reload4j at https://github.com/sponsors/qos-ch On 7/5/2023 11:14 PM, Ton van Bart via logback-user wrote: > Hello, > I have created a custom Logback appender which sends the log events to a > Kafka topic. In order to verify if producing to Kafka was successful, I > check the result and do an addWarn("Failed to produce logging", e) if > there was an exception. > Similarly, I tried to add an addInfo("produced offset:" + > matadata.offset()) when a produce is successful. > > I'm using this appender in Kafka Connect, where I have wrapped it in an > AsyncAppender; however, neither message is showing. I also tried > printing to System.out / System.err from within the appender with the > same (lack of) result: during start up of Connect, I do see addInfo() > messages, but during normal processing, everything goes silent. No > messages appear on the topic so I assume something went wrong; when > testing the setup in a local docker compose, it works, so there must be > some problem somewhere. > > I understand that this may be due to the combination with Kafka Connect, > my question is: should I expect addInfo() etc. to show up in normal > appender processing (i.e. calling it from within append() or is this > internal logging for use only in appender start() ? What would be the > standard way for an appender to report errors during append()? > > Note: due to circumstances beyond my control, I'm currently stuck on > Logback 1.2.11 . > > Thanks in advance for any tips, kind regards, Ton > > _______________________________________________ > logback-user mailing list > logback-user@qos.ch > https://mailman.qos.ch/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/logback-user _______________________________________________ logback-user mailing list logback-user@qos.ch https://mailman.qos.ch/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/logback-user
