you just need to set LOG_DIR property . All logs will be redirected to LOG_DIR directory.
On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 11:49 AM, Shannon Lloyd <shanl...@gmail.com> wrote: > By default Kafka writes its server logs into a "logs" directory underneath > the installation root. I'm trying to override this to get it to write logs > to an external location so that I can separate all the read/write logs/data > from the read-only binaries. But I can't get it to work correctly. > > I've set the following in my startup script to try to get it to log to > /data/kafka/log: > > export > KAFKA_LOG4J_OPTS="-Dlog4j.configuration=file:/etc/kafka/log4j.properties > -Dkafka.logs.dir=/data/kafka/log" > > In /etc/kafka/log4j.properties I've also set kafka.logs.dir to the same > location as specified above. If I only specify it in the properties file > and not via KAFKA_LOG4J_OPTS, it doesn't work (all of the logs keep going > to the default location). > > And this works... sort of. It sends all logs where I want *except* for > kafkaServer-gc.log and kafkaServer.out, both of which still go to "logs" > under the installation root. > > Am I missing something? Or can I simply not redirect these two files so > that ALL my logs go somewhere outside the installation location? > > Thanks. >
