^^ I would really appreciate this as well. It's unclear how to get log4j
working with Kafka when you have no prior experience with log4j.

On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 4:39 AM, Scott Chapman <sc...@woofplanet.com> wrote:

> Thanks. But we're using log4j. I tried setting the type to async but it
> generated a warning of no such field. Is there any real documentation on
> the log4j appender?
>
> On Mon Feb 23 2015 at 2:58:54 AM Steven Schlansker <
> sschlans...@opentable.com> wrote:
>
> > We just configure our logback.xml to have two Appenders, an AsyncAppender
> > -> KafkaAppender, and FileAppender (or ConsoleAppender as appropriate).
> >
> > AsyncAppender removes more failure cases too, e.g. a health check hanging
> > rather than returning rapidly could block you application.
> >
> > On Feb 22, 2015, at 11:26 PM, anthony musyoki <anthony.musy...@gmail.com
> >
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Theres also another one here.
> > >
> > > https://github.com/danielwegener/logback-kafka-appender.
> > >
> > > It has a fallback appender which might address the issue of Kafka being
> > > un-available.
> > >
> > >
> > > On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 9:45 AM, Steven Schlansker <
> > > sschlans...@opentable.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >> Here’s my attempt at a Logback version, should be fairly easily
> ported:
> > >>
> > >> https://github.com/opentable/otj-logging/blob/master/kafka/
> > src/main/java/com/opentable/logging/KafkaAppender.java
> > >>
> > >> On Feb 22, 2015, at 1:36 PM, Scott Chapman <sc...@woofplanet.com>
> > wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> I am just starting to use it and could use a little guidance. I was
> > able
> > >> to
> > >>> get it working with 0.8.2 but am not clear on best practices for
> using
> > >> it.
> > >>>
> > >>> Anyway willing to help me out a bit? Got a few questions, like how to
> > >>> protect applications from when kafka is down or unreachable.
> > >>>
> > >>> It seems like a great idea for being able to get logs from existing
> > >>> applications to be collected by kafka.
> > >>>
> > >>> Thanks in advance!
> > >>
> > >>
> >
> >
>

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