Custom Markers

2015-09-10 Thread Priya Ahuja
Hi, I am currently using log4j2.0 and I have implemented Marker (SYSLOG_MARKER) for deciding the destination of a log to be localfile log or syslog. But with this approach all the existing logs in the system (~5000) will need manual decision and addition of marker to every single log. Is there a

Re: Custom Markers

2015-09-10 Thread Ralph Goers
If I understand you correctly, you have an existing application that logs events in about 5000 different places, so you don’t want to have to modify that code. Without modifying the code the only way to filter the events is on somehow find something wiithin the message itself. If you can add

Re: Custom Markers

2015-09-10 Thread Ralph Goers
Gee whiz, that wasn’t very clear. Let’s try again. Without modifying the code the only way I can think of to filter the events is to find something within the message itself to filter on. If you can add the marker only to the events you want routed then the configuration you have below will