[jira] [Comment Edited] (LOG4J2-1366) Detecting async logger overflows using a sequence number

["Nicholas Wertzberger (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Nicholas Wertzberger edited comment on LOG4J2-1366 at 4/14/16 3:54 PM:
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Maybe I misread AbstractLogger, but it looked like log is only called if the log level is enabled. I'll look into what you mean by filters.

Any option that would be able to inject a sequence number before it hit the async logger would work. 


was (Author: rannick):
Maybe I misread AbstractLogger, but it looked like log is only called if the log level is enabled. 

Any option that would be being able to inject a sequence number before it hit the async logger would work. 

> Detecting async logger overflows using a sequence number
> --------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: LOG4J2-1366
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-1366
>             Project: Log4j 2
>          Issue Type: Wish
>          Components: Appenders
>    Affects Versions: 2.5
>            Reporter: Nicholas Wertzberger
>            Priority: Minor
>   Original Estimate: 2h
>  Remaining Estimate: 2h
>
> I'm trying to build log drop detection into our system. It's OK to lose messages, and I'd rather lose messages that drop service, but it's NOT OK to not know that log messages were dropped.
> While looking around, i see that log4j2 has this concept of a sequence number in its PatternLayout. After browsing the source code, it seems that the event has to make it all the way to the appender doing the pattern layout to get the sequence id to increment.
> As a potential solution, I propose that this sequence id is moved to be a static member of the AbstractLogger class, and increment on every call to log.  This would allow me to detect dropped log messages by looking for gaps in the sequence.



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