Ah looks like monitorinterval is supported as per the doc[1]: Properties configuration files support the advertiser, monitorInterval, name, packages, shutdownHook, shutdownTimeout, status, verbose, and dest attributes.
1. https://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/manual/configuration.html#ConfigurationSyntax On Sat, Mar 18, 2023 at 11:14 AM Viraj Jasani <vjas...@apache.org> wrote: > Thanks Ralph for the recommendations! > > > First, I strongly recommend you switch from properties to either XML, > Yaml, or JSON. > > The reason why we would still like to stick to properties (at least for > now during the migration) is that LOG4J2-3341 allows setting level and > appender at once in the properties file. After migration, if there is any > better way, we would consider migrating to xml or yaml for sure. Here is > the old thread for the reference[1] after which both hbase and hadoop have > decided to stick to properties for now. > > > Note that there are several variations of the initialize method. > > Sure I think we might be able to use, will explore: > public static LoggerContext initialize(final String name, final > ClassLoader loader, final URI configLocation) { > return initialize(name, loader, configLocation, null); > } > > Even with properties file, is it still possible to configure monitor > interval? > > > 1. https://lists.apache.org/thread/gvfb3jkg6t11cyds4jmpo7lrswmx28w3 > > On Fri, Mar 17, 2023 at 8:59 PM Viraj Jasani <vjas...@apache.org> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Could you please help with log4j2 replacement for PropertyConfigurator >> APIs configureAndWatch and configure? >> >> For instance, this is the logic we have that we need to migrate to log4j2: >> >> >> >> protected void initLog() throws ServerException { >> verifyDir(logDir); >> LogManager.resetConfiguration(); >> File log4jFile = new File(configDir, name + "-log4j.properties"); >> if (log4jFile.exists()) { >> PropertyConfigurator.configureAndWatch(log4jFile.toString(), 10 * >> 1000); //every 10 secs >> log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(Server.class); >> } else { >> Properties props = new Properties(); >> try { >> InputStream is = getResource(DEFAULT_LOG4J_PROPERTIES); >> try { >> props.load(is); >> } finally { >> is.close(); >> } >> } catch (IOException ex) { >> throw new ServerException(ServerException.ERROR.S03, >> DEFAULT_LOG4J_PROPERTIES, ex.getMessage(), ex); >> } >> PropertyConfigurator.configure(props); >> log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(Server.class); >> log.warn("Log4j [{}] configuration file not found, using default >> configuration from classpath", log4jFile); >> } >> } >> >> >>
