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This is an appender used for pushing log4j logs to redis.

you can use it in a log4j.xml like this:

<appender name="logstash" class="com.github.zsxneil.log4j.RedisAppender">
	<param name="source" value="spring-application"/>
	<param name="type" value="redis-input"/>
	<param name="host" value="localhost"/>
	<param name="password" value="password"/>
	<param name="port" value="6379"/>
	<param name="key" value="logstash:redis"/>
	<param name="tags" value="test"/>
	<param name="mdc" value="true"/>
	<param name="location" value="true"/>
	<param name="appname" value="log4j-redis-appender"/>
</appender>

you can get it from maven central repository already. the dependency is here:

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.github.zsxneil</groupId>
    <artifactId>log4j-redis-appender</artifactId>
    <version>1.0.0</version>
</dependency>