Kafka log4j appender may not support the layout. Could you open a jira for
this?
Thanks,
Jun
On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 11:24 AM, Sining Ma <sinin...@aol.com> wrote:
> Hi
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> I am using kafka 0.7.1 right now.
> I am using the following log4j properties file and trying to send some log
> information to kafka server.
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> log4j.rootLogger=INFO,file,stdout
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> log4j.appender.stdout=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender
> log4j.appender.stdout.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
> log4j.appender.stdout.layout.ConversionPattern=[%d] %p %t %m (%c)%n
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> log4j.appender.file=org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender
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> #log4j.appender.file.FileNamePattern=c:\\development\\producer-agent_%d{yyyy-MM-dd}.log
> log4j.appender.file.File=${AC_DATA_HOME}\\lmservice\\tailer-aggregator.log
> log4j.appender.file.MaxFileSize=100MB
> log4j.appender.file.MaxBackupIndex=1
> log4j.appender.file.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
> #log4j.appender.file.layout.ConversionPattern= %-4r [%t] %-5p %c %x - %m%n
> log4j.appender.file.layout.ConversionPattern=[%d] %p %t %m (%c)%n
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> log4j.appender.KAFKA=kafka.producer.KafkaLog4jAppender
> log4j.appender.KAFKA.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
> log4j.appender.KAFKA.layout.ConversionPattern=[%d] %p %t %m (%c)%n
> log4j.appender.KAFKA.BrokerList=0:localhost:9092
> log4j.appender.KAFKA.SerializerClass=kafka.serializer.StringEncoder
> log4j.appender.KAFKA.Topic=test.topic
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> # Turn on all our debugging info
> log4j.logger.kafka=INFO, KAFKA
> log4j.logger.org=INFO, KAFKA
> log4j.logger.com=INFO, KAFKA
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> However, I find that the messages send to kafka server are not formatted
> as my defined layout.
> KafkaLog4jAppender just sends messages(%m), and there is no other
> conversion patterns.
> I am not sure if my configuration is wrong or KafkaLog4jAppender does not
> support log4j layout.
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