I have installed elasticsearch(6.6.0) and CentOS 7. I want to add somemore properties for rotating logs like if size is 50MB rotate and compress. But if i add any more configuration to /etc/elasticsearch/log4j2.properties file and restart the elasticsearch server, it fails.
My current log4j2.properties file:
status = error
# log action execution errors for easier debugging
logger.action.name = org.elasticsearch.action
logger.action.level = debug
appender.console.type = Console
appender.console.name = console
appender.console.layout.type = PatternLayout
appender.console.layout.pattern = [%d{ISO8601}][%-5p][%-25c{1.}] %marker%m%n
appender.rolling.type = RollingFile
appender.rolling.name = rolling
appender.rolling.fileName =
${sys:es.logs.base_path}${sys:file.separator}${sys:es.logs.cluster_name}.log
appender.rolling.layout.type = PatternLayout
appender.rolling.layout.pattern = [%d{ISO8601}][%-5p][%-25c{1.}]
%marker%.-10000m%n
appender.rolling.filePattern =
${sys:es.logs.base_path}${sys:file.separator}${sys:es.logs.cluster_name}-
%d{yyyy-MM-dd}-%i.log.gz
appender.rolling.policies.type = Policies
appender.rolling.policies.time.type = TimeBasedTriggeringPolicy
appender.rolling.policies.time.interval = 1
appender.rolling.policies.time.modulate = true
rootLogger.level = info
rootLogger.appenderRef.console.ref = console
rootLogger.appenderRef.rolling.ref = rolling
When i try to add, as it was given in elasticsearch documents this is how to add configurations,
appender.rolling.policies.size.size = 2MB
appender.rolling.strategy.action.condition.age = 3D
appender.rolling.strategy.action.type = Delete
appender.rolling.strategy.action.condition.type = IfFileName
It is failing with error :
Exception in thread "main" org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.ConfigurationException: No type attribute provided for component size
at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.properties.PropertiesConfigurationBuilder.createComponent(PropertiesConfigurationBuilder.java:333)
at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.properties.PropertiesConfigurationBuilder.processRemainingProperties(PropertiesConfigurationBuilder.java:347)
at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.properties.PropertiesConfigurationBuilder.createComponent(PropertiesConfigurationBuilder.java:336)
at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.properties.PropertiesConfigurationBuilder.processRemainingProperties(PropertiesConfigurationBuilder.java:347)
at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.properties.PropertiesConfigurationBuilder.createAppender(PropertiesConfigurationBuilder.java:224)
at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.properties.PropertiesConfigurationBuilder.build(PropertiesConfigurationBuilder.java:157)
at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.properties.PropertiesConfigurationFactory.getConfiguration(PropertiesConfigurationFactory.java:56)
at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.properties.PropertiesConfigurationFactory.getConfiguration(PropertiesConfigurationFactory.java:35)
at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.ConfigurationFactory.getConfiguration(ConfigurationFactory.java:244)
at org.elasticsearch.common.logging.LogConfigurator$1.visitFile(LogConfigurator.java:105)
at org.elasticsearch.common.logging.LogConfigurator$1.visitFile(LogConfigurator.java:101)
at java.nio.file.Files.walkFileTree(Files.java:2670)
at org.elasticsearch.common.logging.LogConfigurator.configure(LogConfigurator.java:101)
at org.elasticsearch.common.logging.LogConfigurator.configure(LogConfigurator.java:84)
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.init(Bootstrap.java:316)
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.init(Elasticsearch.java:123)
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.execute(Elasticsearch.java:114)
at org.elasticsearch.cli.EnvironmentAwareCommand.execute(EnvironmentAwareCommand.java:67)
at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.mainWithoutErrorHandling(Command.java:122)
at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.main(Command.java:88)
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:91)
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:84)
And i have a warning in /var/log/elasticsearch/elasticsearch_deprecation.log :
[2018-02-20T02:09:32,694][WARN ][o.e.d.e.NodeEnvironment ] ES has detected the [path.data] folder using the cluster name as a folder [/data/es], Elasticsearch 6.0 will not allow the cluster name as a folder within the data path
Can anyone please explain how to add the configuration to log4j2.properties file ?
