[logback-dev] redis appender

Ceki Gülcü ceki at qos.ch
Tue Oct 12 22:27:07 CEST 2010


Hi Juan,

Implementing a redis appender fir logback is probably a very good idea. 
Shout if you need help.

Cheers,

On 11/10/2010 9:45 PM, Juan M Uys wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> I searched Google for:
> site:http://qos.ch/pipermail/logback-dev/ +redis +appender
> site:http://qos.ch/pipermail/logback-dev/ +redis
> ...before messaging.
>
> I need some feedback on writing a Redis appender for logback.
>
> It is especially useful to do this as an appender instead of putting a
> program behind the socket appender, because I'll have direct access to
> the log event, and I'll have a lot of flexibility with regards to saving
> each field of the event with a suitably descriptive key in Redis. With
> Redis' fast retrieval and pattern matching support on keys, I'll be able
> to do fast log analyses using a separate custom tool (which I'm also
> planning to build and put in the open source domain).
>
> Please let me know if I'm going to waste my time, and if the same thing
> can be achieved with one of the other appenders. Extending DBAppender
> also didn't make a lot of sense because it's mainly geared towards SQL.
>
> Thanks,
> Juan
>
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