[logback-user] Looking for details about AsyncAppender properties

[KARR, DAVID]

I am now at the point of attempting to implement this listener, but I’m having trouble with it.

With some elisions, my logback.xml looks like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration scan="true" scanPeriod="5 seconds" debug="true">
  <include file=".../baselogback.xml"/>
  <appender name="ASYNC" class="ch.qos.logback.classic.AsyncAppender">
    <appender-ref ref="STDOUT" />
    <listener class="net.logstash.logback.appender.listener.FailureSummaryLoggingAppenderListener"/>
    <discardingThreshold>0</discardingThreshold>
    <queueSize>256</queueSize>
    <includeCallerData>false</includeCallerData>
    <neverBlock>false</neverBlock>
  </appender>
  <logger name="..." level="DEBUG" additivity="false">
    <appender-ref ref="ASYNC"/>
  </logger>
  <logger name="..." level="DEBUG" additivity="false">
    <appender-ref ref="STDOUT"/>
  </logger>
  <root level="INFO">
    <appender-ref ref="STDOUT"/>
  </root>
</configuration>

I tested the async appender before I added the listener, and it seemed to be basically working (although I’m not certain how I verify from the logs that it’s actually asynchronous).

I then added the listener as above.  When I start my service with this, I get the following:
Logging system failed to initialize using configuration from '.../logback.xml'
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Logback configuration error detected:
ERROR in ch.qos.logback.core.joran.spi.Interpreter at 5:101 - no applicable action for [listener], current ElementPath  is [[configuration][appender][listener]]
ERROR in ch.qos.logback.core.joran.spi.Interpreter at 5:101 - no applicable action for [listener], current ElementPath  is [[configuration][appender][listener]]
    at org.springframework.boot.logging.logback.LogbackLoggingSystem.loadConfiguration(LogbackLoggingSystem.java:169)

I don’t understand what is wrong here.

From: logback-user <logback-user-bounces at qos.ch> On Behalf Of Will Sargent
Sent: Sunday, May 23, 2021 3:50 AM
To: logback users list <logback-user at qos.ch>
Subject: Re: [logback-user] Looking for details about AsyncAppender properties

You can report failure to log with an appender listener.

https://github.com/logstash/logstash-logback-encoder/blob/master/src/main/java/net/logstash/logback/appender/listener/FailureSummaryLoggingAppenderListener.java<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/github.com/logstash/logstash-logback-encoder/blob/master/src/main/java/net/logstash/logback/appender/listener/FailureSummaryLoggingAppenderListener.java__;!!BhdT!zwLb2IBXPlOE_S18efHOAwlRxSrCqtisf48mb3qFZWAaIii4Z9ziT5SffDv0sA$>

https://github.com/logstash/logstash-logback-encoder<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/github.com/logstash/logstash-logback-encoder__;!!BhdT!zwLb2IBXPlOE_S18efHOAwlRxSrCqtisf48mb3qFZWAaIii4Z9ziT5RNGmCTQA$>


On May 23, 2021, at 2:26 AM, David Roussel <nabble at diroussel.xsmail.com<mailto:nabble at diroussel.xsmail.com>> wrote:


David

On 23 May 2021, at 01:24, KARR, DAVID <dk068x at att.com<mailto:dk068x at att.com>> wrote:

I guess that will likely be 800k for each AsyncAppender (queueSize of 100000).  That could be significant, or not.

That’s just for the array. The data will be bigger. But weather it’s worth it depends on the risk of data loss of logs.

And the problem with loosing log lines is that it is hard to spot. Most teams never look for missing log lines. And if they thought some were missing it would be hard to prove if and why it occurred.

So what do you use logs for? Diagnostics in case of a problem? Or do they feed MI reporting?

David


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