Sumo Logic Logback Appender

Create a Logback compatible Appender for sending data to SumoLogic.com. This is useful if you run a Play Framework or Akka Server both of which use Logback over Log4J.

#Installation

resolvers += Resolver.sonatypeRepo("releases")
resolvers += Resolver.sonatypeRepo("snapshots")
libraryDependencies += "com.github.vital-software" %% "sumo-logback" % "0.2-SNAPSHOT"

In your logback.xml file:

 <appender name="SUMOLOGBACK" class="com.github.vitalsoftware.logging.SumoLogicAppender">
   <url>[collector URL created on SumoLogic.com]</url>
   <encoder>
     <pattern>%date{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss,SSS Z} [%level] from %logger - %message%n%xException</pattern>
   </encoder>
 </appender>
 
 <appender name="ASYNC" class="ch.qos.logback.classic.AsyncAppender">
   <appender-ref ref="SUMOLOGBACK" />
 </appender>
 
 <root level="DEBUG">
   <appender-ref ref="ASYNC" />
 </root>

Be sure to wrap your appender in an AsyncAppender so that log events do not block the current thread.

Dependencies

Future Work

SumoLogic supports proxy's, configurable timeouts, etc. This system hardcodes all the default values in the Log4J implementation. If you need to configure these, create a set{VarName} method inside SumoLogicAppender.scala and set an XML tag 1234. Then be a pal and do a pull request for the rest of us.

vital-software/sumo-logback

Sumo Logic Logback Appender

Dependencies

Future Work