Log4j2 Logging to FlumeAppender when Flume agents are down

2014-02-19 Thread Michael Friedmann
We are using a FlumeAppender under Log4j2. Currently, we have one Agent configured. If the Flume agent is running, all is well. However, if the agent goes down, this appears to cause the application to hang. We can configure multiple Flume agents for failover, but I don't believe this addres

[surpress|ignore]Exceptions - what does this attribute do?

2014-02-19 Thread Oliver Schrenk
Hi, My understanding is, that you just need this setting if and only if you use a FailoverAppender. That way you can propagate an exception to other appenders, if during the handling of a log message an exception occurs, say a JDBCAppender can’t connect to a database. So if I have a don’t use

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Nick Williams joins the Apache Logging PMC

2014-02-19 Thread Matt Sicker
Congrats, Nick! On 19 February 2014 08:46, Ralph Goers wrote: > Cogratulations, Nick! > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Feb 19, 2014, at 4:12 AM, "Christian Grobmeier" > wrote: > > > > Dear all, > > > > please welcome Nick Williams as the lastest member of the > > Apache Logging PMC. > > > > Ni

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Nick Williams joins the Apache Logging PMC

2014-02-19 Thread Ralph Goers
Cogratulations, Nick! Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 19, 2014, at 4:12 AM, "Christian Grobmeier" > wrote: > > Dear all, > > please welcome Nick Williams as the lastest member of the > Apache Logging PMC. > > Nick made very valuable contributions esp to Log4j in the past > and the current PMC

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Apache Log4j 2.0-rc1 released

2014-02-19 Thread Nick Williams
The Apache Log4j 2 team is proud to announce the Log4j 2.0-rc1 release! Apache Log4j is a well known framework for logging application behavior. Log4j 2 is an upgrade to Log4j that provides significant improvements over its predecessor, Log4j 1.x, and provides many of the improvements available

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Nick Williams joins the Apache Logging PMC

2014-02-19 Thread Christian Grobmeier
Dear all, please welcome Nick Williams as the lastest member of the Apache Logging PMC. Nick made very valuable contributions esp to Log4j in the past and the current PMC is very happy that he accepted our invitation. Thanks Nick for your work so far and we are all looking forward for more grea