I finally found out that Marker
s are the way to route messages:
What is markers in Java Logging frameworks and that is a reason to use them?
Question
I have a log4j2
logger configuration that basically write all logging of the root logger to a basic logging file. I always use Logger.getRootLogger
here.
For some specific events I'd like to log do a different file. How could I configure such a logger in the properties file (eg give it a name that I can then reference from code)?
Solution 2
I finally found out that Marker
s are the way to route messages:
What is markers in Java Logging frameworks and that is a reason to use them?
OTHER TIPS
You can do something like this.
log4j.appender.transaction=org.apache.log4j.DailyRollingFileAppender
log4j.appender.transaction.DatePattern='.'yyyy-MM-dd
log4j.appender.transaction.File=logs/transaction.log
log4j.appender.transaction.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.transaction.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{dd MMM yyyy HH\:mm\:ss} %-5p %c{2}\:%L - %m%n
log4j.appender.transaction.threshold=info
log4j.logger.transaction=INFO, transaction