as an additional note: Flink is sending all files in the /lib folder to all YARN containers. So you could place the XML file in "/lib" and override the properties.
I think you need to delete the log4j properties from the conf/ directory, then at least on YARN, we'll not set the -Dlog4j.configuration property On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 3:58 PM, Till Rohrmann <trohrm...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi Gwenhaël, > > as far as I know, there is no direct way to do so. You can either adapt > the flink-daemon.sh script in line 68 to use a different configuration or > you can test whether the dynamic property > -Dlog4j.configurationFile:CONFIG_FILE overrides the -Dlog4j.confguration > property. You can set the dynamic property using Flink’s env.java.opts > configuration parameter. > > Cheers, > Till > > > On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 3:34 PM, Gwenhael Pasquiers < > gwenhael.pasqui...@ericsson.com> wrote: > >> Hi everybody, >> >> >> >> Could it be possible to have a way to configure log4j with xml files ? >> >> >> >> I’ve looked into the code and it looks like the properties files names >> are hardcoded. However we have the need to use xml : >> >> - We log everything into ELK (Elasticsearch / Logstash / >> Kibana) using SocketAppender >> >> - Socket appender is synchronous by default and slow whole app >> if anything goes wrong with the ELK >> >> - We usually add an AsyncAppender on top of the SocketAppender, >> but this sort of configuration is only possible using an XML config file… >> >> >> >> We’ve already ran into the issue. Everything was almost paused because >> the ELK was overloaded and extremely slow. >> >> >> >> B.R. >> >> >> >> Gwenhaël PASQUIERS >> > >
