sanel/google-cloud-logging-log4j

Google Cloud Logging Appender for log4j2

Google Cloud Logging lo4j2 appender

This project helps logging all log messages to Google Cloud Logging via an log4j2 Appender.

Installation

Add the following maven dependency to your pom.xml:

    <dependency>
      <groupId>eu.zirrus.gcloud.logging</groupId>
      <artifactId>log4j</artifactId>
      <version>0.1.0</version>
    </dependency>

or with gradle:

compile 'eu.zirrus.gcloud.logging:log4j:0.1.0'

Configuration

This is a sample config which adds a CloudLogging Appender called CloudLogginTest. The Appender is wrapped in an AsyncAppender to run in non-blocking mode.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Configuration status="INFO">
  <Appenders>
    <CloudLogging name="CloudLoggingTest" projectId="allcyte-akira">
      <PatternLayout pattern="%d{HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%t] %-5level %logger{36} - %msg%n"/>
    </CloudLogging>
    <Console name="Console">
      <PatternLayout pattern="%d{HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%t] %-5level %logger{36} - %msg%n"/>
    </Console>
    <Async name="CloudLoggingAsync">
      <AppenderRef ref="CloudLoggingTest"/>
    </Async>
  </Appenders>
  <Loggers>
    <Root level="info">
      <AppenderRef ref="Console" level="error"/>
      <AppenderRef ref="CloudLoggingAsync" />
    </Root>
  </Loggers>
</Configuration>