Tomcat uses commons-logging for logging. You might be able to write an adapter towards Kafka, in a similar way as the log4j-kafka appender. I think this would be cleaner than writing something Tomcat-specific that intercepts your requests and logs them through Kafka.
/Max -- Maxime Petazzoni Sr. Platform Engineer m 408.310.0595 www.turn.com ________________________________________ From: Yang [teddyyyy...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2013 10:09 AM To: users@kafka.apache.org Subject: default producer to retro-fit existing log files collection process? in many setups we have production web server logs rotated on local disks, and then collected using some sort of scp processes. I guess the ideal way to use kafka is to write a module for tomcat and catches the request , send through the kafka api. but is there a "quick and dirty" producer included from kafka to just read the existing rotated logs and send through kafka API? this would avoid having to touch the existing java code thanks Yang
