[logback-user] Logback with Tomcat and multiple web applications

[Ryan Cornia]

Thanks for the suggestions, this is exactly what I want to do. As long as I
can point ContextJNDISelector to an external config file, it sounds perfect.
I assume I just put in the full path to get at a resource outside of the
war? 

I have tried setting MDC with log4j in the first Listener for a web app.
This, unfortunately, has led to unpredictable results. Sometimes it comes
through, sometimes not. We are running on a Tomcat 6 cluster. I'll give
Logback a try, and hope the dropping MDC is a log4j issue. I had suspected
maybe it was the way tomcat created threads that the parent MDC was
sometimes not propagating.

I assume setting the MDC in the first <listener> in web.xml should make it
globally available, and applied to all logging statements?

Thanks!






On 2/11/09 10:31 AM, "Ceki Gulcu" <ceki at qos.ch> wrote:

> 
> If I understand correctly, you would like to have the syslog output somehow
> include the current application name. Is that all?
> 
> More below.
> 
> Ryan Cornia wrote:
>> I've been struggling with this in Log4J, and am wondering if it's possible
>> in Logback.
>> 
>> If I have tomcat, with several web applications, can I have one instance of
>> the logback jars in Tomcat/lib, and one configuration file, but distinguish
>> between applications via variable substitution and the pattern?
>> 
>> We are logging to SYSLOG, so I would like the pattern to include the
>> application name.
>> 
>> I looked through the manual, and see you can use variable substitution for
>> specifying different files, but does substitution work in the pattern field?
> 
> Substitution variables work within the pattern field. However, I don't think
> that's what you want. You probably want to specify a conversion word whose
> value 
> dynamically changes to the name of your application. Assuming you set the MDC
> key "applicationName" to the name of the application, then the following
> config 
> file might be what you are looking for.
> 
> <configuration>
>    <appender name="SYSLOG" class="ch.qos.logback.classic.net.SyslogAppender">
>      <SyslogHost>YOUR HOST HERE</SyslogHost>
>      <Facility>USER</Facility>
>      <SuffixPattern>%mdc{applicationName} %msg</SuffixPattern>
>    </appender>
> 
>    <root level="debug">
>      <appender-ref ref="SYSLOG" />
>    </root>
> </configuration>
> 
> You might also be interested in SiftingAppender which is a whole world on its
> own. See http://logback.qos.ch/manual/appenders.html#SiftingAppender
> 
>> Can the ContextJNDISelector use a configuration file outside of the war?
> 
> Sure.
> 
>> Ideally I would have the logging configuration file in tomcat/conf or
>> somewhere, and have all applications use the same one.
> 
>> Thanks for any help!