I am migrating from log4j 1.x to log4j2 in my spring boot application. Being on log4j 1.x I used to define the properties as follows: in my CustomRollingFileAppender I would extend this class with the DailyRollingFileAppender, and would override the setName() method to change my ‘<base.path>’…
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log4j2 change Rolling file appender max files programmatically
I am working on an application that uses log4j2 (initializes the parameters using log4j2.xml) and loads the logger. When the application runs, I am required to programmatically override a few parameters such as changing the log level and rolling file appender properties. I am able to change the log level usin…
log4j configurations with daily rolling, gzip and max backup files
Is there an appender that I can use that will get me daily rolling, compression and max files? I can get daily rolling file with compression using apache-log4j-extras with this configuration: But I can’t specify MaxBackupIndex as in org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender (note the slight namespace differe…