Using apache Kafka appender in log4j2.xml
I am trying to use the apache log4j2 appender for KAfka to send some of the log events to a Kafka topic. Whenever I add the settings to log4j2.xml to use the Kafka appender it stops all logs including the normal RollingRandomAccessFile appenders. I basically get 0 logging after I add the Kafka Appender to the log4j2.xml Appendres. I am using tomcat 9 on linux with Pega 8.2.1
Was anyone in this community able to successfully add Kafka appendrs to their prlog4j2.xml.
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Added the prlog4j2.xml to this thread.
Yes - I was trying to doa POC to see if this can work and for that I instaleld the kafka standalone and also added the kafka client jars to the tomcat libs folder so that it is in the classpath
kafka-clients-2.4.0.jar
kafka-log4j-appender-2.4.0.jar
Kafka server is running on localhost and has a topic test created on it and it is running on port 9092
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Yes my Kafka is external. I noticed that if I do not add the topic sectio nthen the file logging is successful but if I add the topic then none of the loggers are logging anything.
Do I need to add a different package for the logger? I am at a loss here. Does anyone have any pointers for me.
Thanks