Another possibility would be to have a ThreadGroupContextSelector and then use 
a different LoggerContext and configuration for each ThreadGroup. However, that 
could get very complicated. The RoutingAppender pretty much accomplishes the 
same thing and would be much easier to do.

Ralph

> On Apr 25, 2019, at 9:21 AM, Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Oh damn, right, bit of a limitation there. I'll ponder on this a bit.
> 
> On Thu, 25 Apr 2019 at 11:18, Ralph Goers <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Matt, Benjamin’s issue is that he has no control over what is running in the 
>> “jobs” but he wants all the logs for a “job” to end up in the same appender. 
>> His definition of a job is that he is creating a thread to run it and 
>> everything under that thread should route to that Appender. So he cannot 
>> control what logger names are used much less whether they have Markers or 
>> not.
>> 
>> Ralph
>> 
>>> On Apr 25, 2019, at 8:59 AM, Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Wed, 24 Apr 2019 at 18:47, Benjamin Jaton <benjamin.ja...@gmail.com> 
>>> wrote:
>>>> I've implemented the solution based on ThreadGroups. Now I am trying to
>>>> have a separate log level per job. The goal is to be able to set one job in
>>>> DEBUG or TRACE while the others stay in WARN. Possible?
>>>> The RoutingAppender creates an appender per route but as far as I know I
>>>> cannot set a log level on the appender object. I guess filters could be
>>>> used but is there something simpler I'm missing?
>>> 
>>> I think you'd be better off using markers for that. See
>>> https://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/manual/markers.html
>>> 
>>> You might also be able to just use a naming scheme for your loggers
>>> that automatically makes them separately configurable as typical
>>> loggers. For example, say you use a naming scheme
>>> "com.example.threadgroup.<groupName>" as your loggers. Then you could
>>> configure them by name as usual.
>>> 
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