StdErr and StdOut

[Laurent Hasson <ld...@CapsicoHealth.com>]

Hello,

 

I used to use ANSI coloring for my logs, which was very nice to
differentiate between levels. However, performance became an issue when
using Eclipse: in our app, which uses logging copiously, the whole app
literally slows down by a factor of 4-5x when the ANSI plugin is used. That
makes our dev a pain in the neck. So I reluctantly removed the ANSI
%highlight{…} configuration.

 

However, Eclipse has this capability to show StdOut in regular color (black)
and StdErr in red. Is there a way to configure log4j2 so that ERR messages
go to STDERR in console mode?

 

Here is my configuration:

 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<Configuration status="info">

       <Appenders>

              <Console name="Console" target="SYSTEM_OUT">

                     <PatternLayout>

                            <pattern>%highlight{%d{MMdd.HHmmss.SSS}#%-3t
%level{length=1} %15.15c{1}|  %m%ex{20}%n}</pattern>

                     </PatternLayout>

        </Console>

       </Appenders>

       <Loggers>

              <Root level="debug">

                     <AppenderRef ref="Console" />

              </Root>

       </Loggers>

</Configuration>

 

I tried a naïve solution doing

 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<Configuration status="info">

       <Appenders>

              <Console name="Console" target="SYSTEM_OUT">

                     <PatternLayout>

                <pattern>%d{MMdd.HHmmss.SSS}#%-3t %level{length=1}
%15.15c{1}|  %m%ex{20}%n</pattern>

                     </PatternLayout>

        </Console>

              <Console name="ConsoleErr" target="SYSTEM_ERR">

                     <PatternLayout>

                <pattern>%d{MMdd.HHmmss.SSS}#%-3t %level{length=1}
%15.15c{1}|  %m%ex{20}%n</pattern>

                     </PatternLayout>

        </Console>

       </Appenders>

       <Loggers>

              <Root level="error">

                     <AppenderRef ref="ConsoleErr" />

              </Root>

              <Root level="debug">

                     <AppenderRef ref="Console" />

              </Root>

       </Loggers>

</Configuration>

 

 

But that didn’t work. All logs go to STDOUT, and if I reverse the order of
the Loggers definitions, all go to STDERR.

 

 

Laurent Hasson
Co-Founder and CTO

CapsicoHealth Inc.

 



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