Question
Centene Corporation
US
Last activity: 20 Dec 2019 13:13 EST
Can robot diagnostics log layout be changed?
I am trying to change the layout used by the log4net publisher. We have requirements to ship the logs in a specific format to our ELK stack. However, the logs are not responding to any changes in the layout parameter, not even minor changes.
Runtime version: 8.0.2044.0
I'm changing the layout in C:\Program Files (x86)\OpenSpan\OpenSpan Runtime Enterprise\RuntimeConfig.xml
publisher: Log4NetPublisher
appender: RollingFileAppender
I've changed values in the Layout property of this appender. In addition to attempting the required layout, I also attempted to make minor and pointless changes. None of my editing resulted in a formatting change of any kind in the logs. Is this actually an editable configuration? We've based this effort on the assumption that the log4net configuration is actually being used by the runtime to populate the diagnostics log.
Accepted Solution
Pegasystems Inc.
US
I've never actually customized the Log4NetPublisher, however I believe your issue is that you are editing the wrong file. The RuntimeConfig.xml in the installation directory is only used the first time a user launches Runtime on their machine. After that, it is copied to %AppData%\Pegasystems (or OpenSpan if you are pre-19.1). As far as I know, you should be able to do normal Log4Net configuration "things" to the file, so I would assume that your issue is that you're editing the wrong file.