Given log4j2.xml is reference to configure multiple appenders such as console appender and file appenders. This also configure the dynamic log root path.
Log4j multiple appenders configuration
Sample log4j configuration is given blow. It does following things:
- Uses dynamic log root path where log files will be created. Pass environment variable as
-DAPP_LOG_ROOT=c:/tempto configure it. - Demo the usage of property constants defined in config file e.g.
LOG_PATTERNin below file. - It uses
LevelRangeFilterto log different log level statements in different files i.e. debug logs in one file and error logs in separate file. - All logs will be shown in console also.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Configuration status="WARN" monitorInterval="30">
<Properties>
<Property name="LOG_PATTERN">%d{yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ} %p %m%n</Property>
</Properties>
<Appenders>
<Console name="Console" target="SYSTEM_OUT" follow="true">
<PatternLayout pattern="${LOG_PATTERN}"/>
</Console>
<RollingFile name="debugLog" fileName="${sys:APP_LOG_ROOT}/application-debug.log"
filePattern="${sys:APP_LOG_ROOT}/application-debug-%d{yyyy-MM-dd}-%i.log">
<LevelRangeFilter minLevel="DEBUG" maxLevel="DEBUG" onMatch="ACCEPT" onMismatch="DENY"/>
<PatternLayout pattern="${LOG_PATTERN}"/>
<Policies>
<SizeBasedTriggeringPolicy size="19500KB" />
</Policies>
<DefaultRolloverStrategy max="10"/>
</RollingFile>
<RollingFile name="infoLog" fileName="${sys:APP_LOG_ROOT}/application-info.log"
filePattern="${sys:APP_LOG_ROOT}/application-info-%d{yyyy-MM-dd}-%i.log" >
<LevelRangeFilter minLevel="INFO" maxLevel="INFO" onMatch="ACCEPT" onMismatch="DENY"/>
<PatternLayout pattern="${LOG_PATTERN}"/>
<Policies>
<SizeBasedTriggeringPolicy size="19500KB" />
</Policies>
<DefaultRolloverStrategy max="10"/>
</RollingFile>
<RollingFile name="errorLog" fileName="${sys:APP_LOG_ROOT}/application-error.log"
filePattern="${sys:APP_LOG_ROOT}/application-error-%d{yyyy-MM-dd}-%i.log" >
<LevelRangeFilter minLevel="ERROR" maxLevel="ERROR" onMatch="ACCEPT" onMismatch="DENY"/>
<PatternLayout pattern="${LOG_PATTERN}"/>
<Policies>
<SizeBasedTriggeringPolicy size="19500KB" />
</Policies>
<DefaultRolloverStrategy max="10"/>
</RollingFile>
<RollingFile name="springLog" fileName="${sys:APP_LOG_ROOT}/spring.log"
filePattern="${sys:APP_LOG_ROOT}/spring-%d{yyyy-MM-dd}-%i.log" >
<PatternLayout pattern="${LOG_PATTERN}"/>
<Policies>
<SizeBasedTriggeringPolicy size="19500KB" />
</Policies>
<DefaultRolloverStrategy max="1"/>
</RollingFile>
<RollingFile name="aopLog" fileName="${sys:APP_LOG_ROOT}/application-aop.log"
filePattern="${sys:APP_LOG_ROOT}/application-aop-%d{yyyy-MM-dd}-%i.log" >
<PatternLayout pattern="${LOG_PATTERN}"/>
<Policies>
<SizeBasedTriggeringPolicy size="19500KB" />
</Policies>
<DefaultRolloverStrategy max="1"/>
</RollingFile>
</Appenders>
<Loggers>
<Logger name="com.howtodoinjava.app.aop" additivity="false">
<AppenderRef ref="aopLog" />
<AppenderRef ref="Console" />
</Logger>
<Logger name="com.howtodoinjava.app" additivity="false">
<AppenderRef ref="debugLog" />
<AppenderRef ref="infoLog" />
<AppenderRef ref="errorLog" />
<AppenderRef ref="Console" />
</Logger>
<Logger name="org.springframework" additivity="false">
<AppenderRef ref="springLog" />
<AppenderRef ref="Console"/>
</Logger>
<Root level="all">
<AppenderRef ref="Console"/>
</Root>
</Loggers>
</Configuration>
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DocBrown
Many thanks, but one question remains for me. How can you define multiple loggers with log4j2.properties configuration
Shubham
Can you provide same for log42.properties file
Nimisha
My main class is not reading from log4j2.xml file.
How should i make it read from this file?
Ramu
Hi,
Good example for multiple appenders. How do we access the these appenders at server side(Java)?
Nishant
Is there a way in Log4j2 to allow logging specific content to a separate file (audit log)?
For example, if value x changes, log to file1 that value of x has changed. This file1 is intended to capture audit logs if value of x changes. If this is supported, I would like to scale this to actual business logic for an audit log.
Sopan Shirhdonkar
Hi, I am using log4j2 with xml config.
I want to write logs depending upon the class name, i.e. for each testng class a separate log file.
While running multiple classes from testng, it just writes into the first class name.
I have written a static method which returns me the logger in utils class.
public static Logger getDynamicLogger(Class className) { SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("HH:mm:ss"); Date date = new Date(); System.setProperty("logFilename", className.getSimpleName() + "-" + formatter.format(date)); SimpleDateFormat pkgFormatter = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MMMM-yy"); System.setProperty("logFileFolder",pkgFormatter.format(date)); ThreadContext.put("className",className.getName()); Reporter.log(className.getName(),true); return LogManager.getLogger(className); }Any idea for this
Kaushik Vankayala
Hello,
I am looking for some insight or help regarding the log4j2 configuration or code to write the custom logs to a remote redhat linux and a windows machine. Could you please provide me some help?
I have seen some log4j links, forums suggesting to use the log4j at sender side and also receiver side. But my application uses log4j2, so could you please care to help?
Regards
Kaushik