log-see

Web Log viewer for log4j with spring amqp appender

Installation

  mvn clean install
  mvn jetty:run

URL to access app:

http://0.0.0.0:8080/logsee/

Screenshot

LogSee-1

Log4j Appender xml

	<appender name="amqp"
		class="org.springframework.amqp.rabbit.log4j.AmqpAppender">
		<param name="host" value="127.0.0.1" />
		<param name="port" value="5672" />
		<param name="virtualHost" value="/" />
		<param name="username" value="guest" />
		<param name="password" value="guest" />
		<param name="ExchangeName" value="amq.topic" />
		<param name="ExchangeType" value="topic" />
		<param name="RoutingKeyPattern" value="log.logsee" />
		<param name="ApplicationId" value="log-see" />
		<param name="contentType" value="text/plain" />
		<param name="senderPoolSize" value="2" />
		<param name="maxSenderRetries" value="30" />
		<layout class="org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout">
			<param name="ConversionPattern" value="%-5p %c{1} - %m%n" />
		</layout>
	</appender>
	
    <logger name="org.springframework.amqp">
              <level value="OFF"/>
    </logger>

Messaging Layer

The project uses rabbitmq running in localhost for messaging . We need to have stomp plugin enabled in rabbitmq.

The STOMP adapter is included in the RabbitMQ distribution. To enable it, use rabbitmq-plugins:

rabbitmq-plugins enable rabbitmq_stomp