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Posted to dev@flink.apache.org by Jose Gonzalez Torres <jl...@gmail.com> on 2017/10/10 20:36:22 UTC

Not being able to log from Flink to Kafka

Hi Guys

I am trying to use log4j to log all the info from my Flink Application into
a Kafka Topic. The Flink application is running in cluster mode. but
everytime ran it said:

10/10/2017 10:30:00 AM - log4j:ERROR Could not instantiate class
[org.apache.kafka.log4jappender.KafkaLog4jAppender].
10/10/2017 10:30:00 AM - java.lang.ClassNotFoundException:
org.apache.kafka.log4jappender.KafkaLog4jAppender
10/10/2017 10:30:00 AM - at
java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:381)
10/10/2017 10:30:00 AM - at
java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:424)
10/10/2017 10:30:00 AM - at
sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:331)
10/10/2017 10:30:00 AM - at
java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357)
10/10/2017 10:30:00 AM - at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
10/10/2017 10:30:00 AM - at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:264)
10/10/2017 10:30:00 AM - at
org.apache.log4j.helpers.Loader.loadClass(Loader.java:198)
10/10/2017 10:30:00 AM - at
org.apache.log4j.helpers.OptionConverter.instantiateByClassName(OptionConverter.java:327)
10/10/2017 10:30:00 AM - at
org.apache.log4j.helpers.OptionConverter.instantiateByKey(OptionConverter.java:124)
10/10/2017 10:30:00 AM - at
org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.parseAppender(PropertyConfigurator.java:785)
10/10/2017 10:30:00 AM - at
org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.parseCategory(PropertyConfigurator.java:768)
10/10/2017 10:30:00 AM - at
org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.configureRootCategory(PropertyConfigurator.java:648)
10/10/2017 10:30:00 AM - at
org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.doConfigure(PropertyConfigurator.java:514)
10/10/2017 10:30:00 AM - at
org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.doConfigure(PropertyConfigurator.java:580)
10/10/2017 10:30:00 AM - at
org.apache.log4j.helpers.OptionConverter.selectAndConfigure(OptionConverter.java:526)
10/10/2017 10:30:00 AM - at
org.apache.log4j.LogManager.<clinit>(LogManager.java:127)
10/10/2017 10:30:00 AM - at
org.slf4j.impl.Log4jLoggerFactory.getLogger(Log4jLoggerFactory.java:64)
10/10/2017 10:30:00 AM - at
org.slf4j.LoggerFactory.getLogger(LoggerFactory.java:277)
10/10/2017 10:30:00 AM - at
org.slf4j.LoggerFactory.getLogger(LoggerFactory.java:288)
10/10/2017 10:30:00 AM - at
org.apache.flink.client.CliFrontend.<clinit>(CliFrontend.java:107)
10/10/2017 10:30:00 AM - log4j:ERROR Could not instantiate appender
named "kafka".


The classpath have the jar for the kafka classes but for some reason
it not being able to use it.

I really appreciate some help

Jose

Re: Not being able to log from Flink to Kafka

Posted by Chesnay Schepler <ch...@apache.org>.
Is the KafkaLog4jAppender in the user-jar, or in the /lib directory of 
the flink distribution?

On 10.10.2017 22:36, Jose Gonzalez Torres wrote:
> Hi Guys
>
> I am trying to use log4j to log all the info from my Flink Application into
> a Kafka Topic. The Flink application is running in cluster mode. but
> everytime ran it said:
>
> 10/10/2017 10:30:00 AM - log4j:ERROR Could not instantiate class
> [org.apache.kafka.log4jappender.KafkaLog4jAppender].
> 10/10/2017 10:30:00 AM - java.lang.ClassNotFoundException:
> org.apache.kafka.log4jappender.KafkaLog4jAppender
> 10/10/2017 10:30:00 AM - at
> java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:381)
> 10/10/2017 10:30:00 AM - at
> java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:424)
> 10/10/2017 10:30:00 AM - at
> sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:331)
> 10/10/2017 10:30:00 AM - at
> java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357)
> 10/10/2017 10:30:00 AM - at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
> 10/10/2017 10:30:00 AM - at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:264)
> 10/10/2017 10:30:00 AM - at
> org.apache.log4j.helpers.Loader.loadClass(Loader.java:198)
> 10/10/2017 10:30:00 AM - at
> org.apache.log4j.helpers.OptionConverter.instantiateByClassName(OptionConverter.java:327)
> 10/10/2017 10:30:00 AM - at
> org.apache.log4j.helpers.OptionConverter.instantiateByKey(OptionConverter.java:124)
> 10/10/2017 10:30:00 AM - at
> org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.parseAppender(PropertyConfigurator.java:785)
> 10/10/2017 10:30:00 AM - at
> org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.parseCategory(PropertyConfigurator.java:768)
> 10/10/2017 10:30:00 AM - at
> org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.configureRootCategory(PropertyConfigurator.java:648)
> 10/10/2017 10:30:00 AM - at
> org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.doConfigure(PropertyConfigurator.java:514)
> 10/10/2017 10:30:00 AM - at
> org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.doConfigure(PropertyConfigurator.java:580)
> 10/10/2017 10:30:00 AM - at
> org.apache.log4j.helpers.OptionConverter.selectAndConfigure(OptionConverter.java:526)
> 10/10/2017 10:30:00 AM - at
> org.apache.log4j.LogManager.<clinit>(LogManager.java:127)
> 10/10/2017 10:30:00 AM - at
> org.slf4j.impl.Log4jLoggerFactory.getLogger(Log4jLoggerFactory.java:64)
> 10/10/2017 10:30:00 AM - at
> org.slf4j.LoggerFactory.getLogger(LoggerFactory.java:277)
> 10/10/2017 10:30:00 AM - at
> org.slf4j.LoggerFactory.getLogger(LoggerFactory.java:288)
> 10/10/2017 10:30:00 AM - at
> org.apache.flink.client.CliFrontend.<clinit>(CliFrontend.java:107)
> 10/10/2017 10:30:00 AM - log4j:ERROR Could not instantiate appender
> named "kafka".
>
>
> The classpath have the jar for the kafka classes but for some reason
> it not being able to use it.
>
> I really appreciate some help
>
> Jose
>