The regex filter would filter which messages get logged to the configured logger based on regex pattern matching. What you'd want is a Layout (probably a PatternLayout) to specify what fields to log. If that doesn't solve the problem, a custom Layout class would probably solve the issue.
On 28 February 2014 18:04, James Hart <hartj...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi > > I'm an admin for a java application that uses log4j. > > I'm working with a vendor to see if there's a way to scrub the output of > their log messages. The output of these messages is quite long (at least a > few hundred characters) making the lines difficult to read when > troubleshooting. > > Is there a way to apply a standard log4j filter or layout that will takes a > regex as input and generate a reduced line with only the bits of text we > care to see? > > I thought maybe this RegexFilter would do the trick, but I can't quite tell > by the documentation: > > http://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/manual/filters.html > > Any and all help is much appreciated. > > Thank you. > -- Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com>
