Hello Julian,
When I created the version 4 of the MongoDB appender, I realized that for
all the use cases I had and I felt were reasonable, I could use a
connection string, a bit like you can in JDBC, which I could not do with a
version 3 driver. There are two settings IIRC that I did not find
When the mongodb4 appender was created for log4j2, the ability to specify a
factory class/method in the log4j2.xml file was removed, and the
configuration option was instead reverted to requiring a simple connection
string.
Was there a technical reason why that needed to happen, or was it just