logicmonitor / log4j-appender-logicmonitor

Log4J Appender for LogicMonitor to forward log4j emitted logs to LogicMonitor

LM Log4j Appender Java

Use LM Log4j appender to export your java application logs to LM platform.

To Use Log4j Appender follow below steps:

Step 1 :

Clone this repository and build the project locally.

./gradlew clean build publishToMavenLocal

Step 2 :

We can use LM Log4j Appender by adding dependency in build.gradle file.

Gradle

dependencies {
    implementation 'com.logicmonitor:log4j-appender-logicmonitor:0.0.1-alpha'
}

Maven

 <dependency>
    <groupId>com.logicmonitor</groupId>
    <artifactId>log4j-appender-logicmonitor</artifactId>
    <version>0.0.1-alpha</version>
  </dependency>

Step 4 :

Change the log4j2.xml as below

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Configuration status="WARN" packages="com.logicmonitor.log4j2appender">
  <Appenders>
    <LMAppender name="LmAppender">
        <PatternLayout pattern="%d{HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%t] %-5level %logger{36} - %msg%n" />
    </LMAppender>
  </Appenders>
  <Loggers>
    <Root level="info">
      <AppenderRef ref="LmAppender"/>
    </Root>
  </Loggers>
</Configuration>

Step 5 :

Build the application.

Step 6 :

Export the authentication variable.

export LM_COMPANY="<company_name>"
export LM_ACCESS_ID="<accessId>"
export LM_ACCESS_KEY="<accessKey>"

Step 7 :

Run the application.