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Extra appenders for Logback.

Logback more appenders

is additional appenders for Logback.

Appenders

• fluentd

  • depends on fluent-logger for Java.
  • Install fluentd before running logger.

• fluency

  • depends on fluency.
  • Install fluentd before running logger.

• Amazon DynamoDB

  • depends on aws-java-sdk.
  • Create Amazon DynamoDB Table

Latest changes

Version 1.4.3

• Added new parameter to FLUENCY appender: useEventTime, set to true to use EventTime instead of standard timestamp and gain millisecond precision use fluentd option time_format to change time resolution in messages

• Update FLUENCY dependency version to 1.6.0

Version 1.4.2

• Added new fluentds fields to FLUENCY appender.
  See details: sndyuk#17

Version 1.4.1

• Added the new appender for Fluency.
  See (FLUENCY) appender on logback-appenders.xml.
  sndyuk#14

Version 1.4.0

• If you use same logback.xml as before, the appenders work synchronously. Now you can choose sync or async fluent appenders on config file.
  See (FLUENT_SYNC | FLUENT) appenders on logback-appenders.xml.
  sndyuk#13

Installing

Install jars from Maven2 repository

Configure your pom.xml:

<dependencies>

  <dependency>
    <groupId>ch.qos.logback</groupId>
    <artifactId>logback-classic</artifactId>
    <version>${logback.version}</version>
  </dependency>

  <dependency>
    <groupId>com.sndyuk</groupId>
    <artifactId>logback-more-appenders</artifactId>
    <version>1.4.2</version>
  </dependency>

  <!-- [Optional] If you use The Fluentd appender, You need to add the dependency(fluent-logger). -->
  <dependency>
    <groupId>org.fluentd</groupId>
    <artifactId>fluent-logger</artifactId>
    <version>${fluentd.logger.version}</version>
  </dependency>

  <!-- [Optional] If you use The Fluency appender, You need to add the dependency(fluency). -->
  <dependency>
    <groupId>org.komamitsu</groupId>
    <artifactId>fluency</artifactId>
    <version>${fluency.version}</version>
  </dependency>

  <!-- [Optional] If you use The Amazon DynamoDB appender, You need to add the dependency(aws-java-sdk). -->
  <dependency>
    <groupId>com.amazonaws</groupId>
    <artifactId>aws-java-sdk</artifactId>
    <version>${aws.version}</version>
  </dependency>

</dependencies>

Configure your logback.xml

You can find the sample configuration files here:

• logback-appenders.xml
• logback.xml

Creating Amazon DynamoDB Table

Before you use Amazon DynamoDB appender, you need to create the table on DynamoDB:

AWS Console -> DynamoDB -> Choose region -> Create Table ->

Table Name: [Table name described in logback.xml]
Partition key: "instance" as String / (Hash Attribute)
Add sort key: "id" as Number / (Range Attribute)

License

Apache License, Version 2.0