A Logback Appender that encodes logs using an Encoder, and sends the result to a remote host over TCP.
Strangely, the default logback Socket Appender doesn't give you control over how logs are encoded. Rather, it uses java object serialization and sends the result to a remote TCP socket, where it assumed you will deserialize messages back into a running JVM process.
In my work on logback-gelf, I needed to encode messages into GELF json before sending over TCP. Much to my annoyance, SocketAppender wouldn't allow that. Thus, this library.
Latest version:
<dependency>
<groupId>me.moocar</groupId>
<artifactId>socket-encoder-appender</artifactId>
<version>0.1beta1</version>
</dependency>See logback-gelf TCP configuration For an example of how to configure this appender. Note, that a null delimeter (\0 character) will be added to the end of every sent log.
- remoteHost: The remote server host name to send log messages to
(DNS or IP). Default:
"localhost" - port: The remote server port. Required
- queueSize: The number of log to keep in memory while the remote
server can't be reached. Default:
128 - acceptConnectionTimeout: Milliseconds to wait for a connection
to be established to the server before failing. Default:
1000