I would like to send the logs of an application on a rsyslog server using the client protocol : Unix socket. Both application and rsyslog server are on the same machine.
I've been comparing different logging tools : Log4J, Logback and Log4J2.
Log4J's Syslog appender doesn't permit it natively. A solution is to use Syslog4J and configure our Syslog4JAppender this way :
<appender name="mySyslogAppender" class="org.productivity.java.syslog4j.impl.log4j.Syslog4jAppender">
<param name="protocol" value="unix_socket" />
...
</appender>
Same as Log4J, Logback's Syslog appender doesn't permit it natively. A solution is to use Syslog4J and logback-syslog4j tool, and configure our appender this way :
<appender name="mySyslogAppender" class="com.papertrailapp.logback.Syslog4jAppender">
<syslogConfig class="org.productivity.java.syslog4j.impl.unix.socket.UnixSocketSyslogConfig">
...
</syslogConfig>
</appender>
Now I'm looking for a solution for Log4J 2, but I didn't find any. Do you know one ? Do these tools will include natively this functionality ?