Sorry, I have just realized that order of starting kafka server and zookeeper does not matter as we are exporting the KAFKA_LOG4J_OPTS is exported from both startup scripts. It always picks up log4j file if we do not specify KAFKA_LOG4J_OPTS.
I am using confluent data platform ( for Kafka). They are not exporting KAFKA_LOG4J_OPTS in the startup scripts. Please share your thoughts on adding appender to redirect logs to different file instead of console. On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 5:27 PM, Raju Bairishetti <r...@apache.org> wrote: > Hello dev, > I have recently started working on the kafka. I am finding the log4j > properties under config directory. We are using this log4j file from the > respective daemon scripts. Ex: kaka-server-start.sh & zookeeper-start.sh > scripts. I am not seeing any log appender for zookeeper daemon in the log4j > properties. *IMO, we should add a log appender for zookeeper in the log4j > properties file to redirect zookeeper logs to different file.* > > I can find two things are here: > 1) If I start zookeeper followed by kafka server then zookeeper logs will > be printed on the console as it picks the tools-log4j.properties file. > > 2) If I start kafka server first and followed by zookeeper then it picks > the log4j file as KAFKA_LOG4J_OPTS has already set by kafka server startup > script. But still it prints the zookeeper logs on console only. > > Thanks, > Raju B > > > -- Thanks Raju Bairishetti, www.inmobi.com *2012 ME Best Mobile Ad Network Award Winner [image: http://www.inmobi.com/press-releases/files/2013/02/MIT.png]
