FailoverAppender

[Srumith1]

Hi Team

FailoverAppender is not working when I configure GelfAppender. Please help.

Thanks
Srumith

[joschi]

@Srumith1 Please elaborate on what you want to achieve and provide your complete Log4j 2 configuration.

[Srumith1]

Logger does not fallback to fileAppender when Graylog is down.
Please find the log-configuration below -

<Appenders>
	<GELF name="gelfAppender" server="localhost" port="12203"
		ignoreExceptions="false" protocol="TCP" includeExceptionCause="true">
		<PatternLayout pattern="%logger{36} - %msg%n" />
		<!-- Additional fields -->
		<KeyValuePair key="foo" value="bar" />
		<KeyValuePair key="jvm" value="${java:vm}" />
	</GELF>

	<Console name="ConsoleAppender" target="SYSTEM_OUT">
		<PatternLayout pattern="%-5p - %m%n %ex{full}" />
	</Console>


	<RollingFile name="RNAGelfDebugFile"
		fileName=".//log//ABC_NA_Gelf_debug.log"
		filePattern=".//log//ABC_NA_Gelf_debug.log.%i">
		<PatternLayout>
			<Pattern>%-5p - %m%n %ex{full}</Pattern>
		</PatternLayout>
		<Policies>

			<SizeBasedTriggeringPolicy size="4 MB" />
		</Policies>
	</RollingFile>
	<Failover name="GelfNADebugFailoverAppender" primary="gelfAppender">
		<Failovers>
			<AppenderRef ref="RNAGelfDebugFile" />
		</Failovers>
	</Failover>


</Appenders>

<Loggers>
	<Logger name="ABCNADebugLogger_NA" level="DEBUG">
		<AppenderRef ref="ConsoleAppender" />
		<AppenderRef ref="GelfNADebugFailoverAppender" />
	</Logger>

	<Root level="debug">

	</Root>

</Loggers>

I have the following libraries my lib -
log4j-1.2.17
log4j2-gelf-1.3.2
log4j-api-2.4.1
log4j-core-2.4.1
gelfclient-1.4.2.1

Tried with both UDP and TCP protocols but din't work.

[joschi]

@Srumith1 Try using https://github.com/mp911de/logstash-gelf instead of this project.

[Srumith1]

Hi Joschi

Is it like there is no support for Failover Appender in the appender/ libraries which I have already used?

[Srumith1]

Please let me know if I have to add some code/configuration to make the same libraries work for Failover too