logstash-appender

A log4j appender that sends raw JSON directly to Logstash (by viskan)

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  • Is it reasonable to transform log4jlogs in via a configuration file?
    2 projects | /r/java | 9 Nov 2021
    Don't use filebeat. Filebeat is for systems that you cannot change logging for. Push logs directly to logstash via logstash appender. Since I'm mainly logback user, there's one directly by logstash at https://github.com/logstash/logstash-logback-encoder. Quick search indicates that there's https://github.com/viskan/logstash-appender/ for log4j also and it seems it also supports MDC abuse as indicated by https://github.com/viskan/logstash-appender/blob/master/src/main/java/com/viskan/log4j/logstash/appender/LogstashAppender.java#L256. By abusing the MDC you won't need to write a processing pattern in logstash to extract metadata from giant blob line as each key in MDC will get assigned additional value, making your records in elastic search more useful.

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viskan/logstash-appender is an open source project licensed under Apache License 2.0 which is an OSI approved license.

The primary programming language of logstash-appender is Java.


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