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Abhishek Sharma commented on KAFKA-1590:
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Right now we are using log4j for logging in Kafka. Binary logging format is not
supported in log4j.
We can have two options -
1) We can write log4j Custom Appender that extends AppenderSkeleton for
supporting binary logging format
2) Explore some alternative for binary logging like mfz-binlog
(https://code.google.com/p/mfz-binlog/).
[~guozhang] - Is there any other option? Any suggestion over this?
> Binarize trace level request logging along with debug level text logging
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> Key: KAFKA-1590
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1590
> Project: Kafka
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Guozhang Wang
> Labels: newbie
> Fix For: 0.9.0
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> With trace level logging, the request handling logs can grow very fast
> depending on the client behavior (e.g. consumer with 0 maxWait and hence keep
> sending fetch requests). Previously we have changed it to debug level which
> only provides a summary of the requests, omitting request details. However
> this does not work perfectly since summaries are not sufficient for
> trouble-shooting, and turning on trace level upon issues will be too late.
> The proposed solution here, is to default to debug level logging with trace
> level logging printed as binary format at the same time. The generated binary
> files can then be further compressed / rolled out. When needed, we will then
> decompress / parse the trace logs into texts.
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