Unable to locate appender
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Your RollingFile configuration needs to specify what triggers a rollover. You do this by adding a <Policy>
element. See the RollingFile manual entry for details.
I believe adding this snippet before the closing </RollingFile>
tag should fix the issue:
<Policies>
<TimeBasedTriggeringPolicy />
</Policies>
For the analyticsFileAppender RollingFile appender you configured a datePattern
where you meant to say filePattern
. Below is the fixed config snippet.
<RollingFile name="analyticsFileAppender" fileName="/tmp/ops_bc_log"
filePattern="'-'yyyyMMdd">
<PatternLayout pattern="%d{yyyy/MM/dd HH:mm:ss} %m%n"/>
<Policies>
<TimeBasedTriggeringPolicy />
</Policies>
</RollingFile>
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Antara Roy over 3 years
I am trying to migrate from
log4j 1
tolog4j 2
in a spring web application. When I build it I get the following error:2015-08-10 16:26:36,222 DEBUG Built Plugin[name=AppenderRef] OK from factory method. 2015-08-10 16:26:36,222 DEBUG Building Plugin[name=root, class=org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.LoggerConfig$RootLogger]. Searching for builder factory method... 2015-08-10 16:26:36,222 DEBUG No builder factory method found in class org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.LoggerConfig$RootLogger. Going to try finding a factory method instead. 2015-08-10 16:26:36,223 DEBUG Still building Plugin[name=root, class=org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.LoggerConfig$RootLogger]. Searching for factory method... 2015-08-10 16:26:36,223 DEBUG Found factory method [createLogger]: public static org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.LoggerConfig org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.LoggerConfig$RootLogger.createLogger(java.lang.String,org.apache.logging.log4j.Level,java.lang.String,org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.AppenderRef[],org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.Property[],org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.Configuration,org.apache.logging.log4j.core.Filter). 2015-08-10 16:26:36,224 DEBUG Calling createLogger on class org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.LoggerConfig$RootLogger for element Root with params(name="null", name="INFO", name="null", ={appFileAppender}, ={}, Configuration(/Applications/tomcat/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/classes/log4j2.xml), null) 2015-08-10 16:26:36,225 DEBUG Built Plugin[name=root] OK from factory method. 2015-08-10 16:26:36,225 DEBUG Building Plugin[name=loggers, class=org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.LoggersPlugin]. Searching for builder factory method... 2015-08-10 16:26:36,227 DEBUG No builder factory method found in class org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.LoggersPlugin. Going to try finding a factory method instead. 2015-08-10 16:26:36,228 DEBUG Still building Plugin[name=loggers, class=org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.LoggersPlugin]. Searching for factory method... 2015-08-10 16:26:36,228 DEBUG Found factory method [createLoggers]: public static org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.Loggers org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.LoggersPlugin.createLoggers(org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.LoggerConfig[]). 2015-08-10 16:26:36,229 DEBUG Calling createLoggers on class org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.LoggersPlugin for element Loggers with params(={app, analyticsLogger, dpLogger, trackingPixelLogger, filteredLogsLogger, trackingOffersPurchasingLogger, ifbLogger, trackingOffersUdidLogger, trackingOffersHeadersLogger, apLogger, s3AdminLogger, bookPackLogger, accumulatorLogger, appDownloadLogger, botDetectionLogger, fourGLogger, urlShortenerLogger, TrackingAllLogger, otiHeadersLogger, postpaidErrorTrackingLogger, root}) 2015-08-10 16:26:36,230 DEBUG Built Plugin[name=loggers] OK from factory method. 2015-08-10 16:26:36,235 ERROR Unable to locate appender appFileAppender for logger 2015-08-10 16:26:36,237 ERROR No appender named fourGFileAppender was configured
Following jars are added to classpath:
- log4j-slf4j-impl-2.3.jar
- log4j-core-2.3.jar
- log4j-api-2.3.jar
- slf4j-api-1.7.12.jar
- commons-logging-1.1.1.jar
- apache-log4j-extras-1.1.jar
And my
log4j2.xml
looks like:<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <Configuration status="trace"> <Appenders> <RollingFile name="appFileAppender" fileName="/tmp/portal-fe.log" filePattern="/tmp/portal-fe.%d{yyyy-MM-dd}.log.gz"> <PatternLayout pattern="%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss} [%p] | [%t] [%X{requestId}] [%X{x_msisdn}] [%X{x_rat}] [%X{x_forwarded_for}] [%X{circle}] [%C{1}:%L] %m%n"/> </RollingFile> <RollingFile name="analyticsFileAppender" fileName="/tmp/ops_bc_log" datePattern="'-'yyyyMMdd"> <PatternLayout pattern="%d{yyyy/MM/dd HH:mm:ss} %m%n"/> </RollingFile> <Async name="ASYNC"> <AppenderRef ref="appFileAppender"/> </Async> <Async name="ASYNC_2"> <AppenderRef ref="analyticsFileAppender"/> </Async> </Appenders> <Loggers> <Logger name="app" level="debug"> <AppenderRef ref="ASYNC"/> </Logger> <Logger name="analyticsLogger" level="info"> <AppenderRef ref="ASYNC_2"/> </Logger> <Root level="info"> <AppenderRef ref="appFileAppender"/> </Root> </Loggers> </Configuration>