Graylog4j

Graylog4j is a log4j appender to send log messages to Graylog2 server

Build

mvn assembly:assembly

Configure

log4j.properties

log4j.appender.graylog=org.graylog.log.GraylogAppander
log4j.appender.graylog.graylogHost=123.45.678.9
log4j.appender.graylog.graylogPort=12201
log4j.appender.graylog.host=mini.me.com
log4j.appender.graylog.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.graylog.additionalFields={'environment':'QA','application':'BigMama'}
log4j.appender.graylog.layout.ConversionPattern=%d %-5p %F:%L - %m%n
...
log4j.rootLogger=INFO, graylog

log4j.xml

<appender name="graylog" class="org.graylog.log.GraylogAppander">
    <param name="graylogHost" value="123.45.678.9"/>
    <param name="graylogPort" value="12201"/>
    <param name="host" value="mini.me.com"/>
    <param name="additionalFields" value='{"environment":"QA","application":"BigMama"}'/>
    <layout class="org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout">
        <param name="ConversionPattern" value="%d %-5p %F:%L - %m%n"/>
    </layout>
</appender>
...
<root>
    <appender-ref ref="graylog"/>
</root>

Copyright

Copyright © 2011 Gene Drabkin. See LICENSE for details.