Java Springboot Gradle project how to write log to cloudwatch? - spring-boot

I have configured log4j2 in my gradle project to write the log to a local file. The log4j2.xml file is written as follow:
<Configuration>
<appender name="cloud-watch" class="io.github.dibog.AwsLogAppender">
<awsConfig>
<credentials>
<accessKeyId>XXXXX</accessKeyId>
<secretAccessKey>XXXXXX</secretAccessKey>
</credentials>
<region>us-east-2</region>
</awsConfig>
<createLogGroup>true</createLogGroup>
<queueLength>100</queueLength>
<groupName>SpringLog</groupName>
<streamName>StreamName</streamName>
<dateFormat>yyyyMMdd_HHmm</dateFormat>
<layout>
<pattern>[%thread] %-5level %logger{35} - %msg %n</pattern>
</layout>
</appender>
<Loggers>
<Root level="ALL">
<AppenderRef ref="cloud-watch"/>
</Root>
</Loggers>
</Configuration>
Here I am firstly getting an error "Unable to locate appender "cloud-watch". Also the logging to the cloudwatch is also not working.
Can any one please correct me what I am doing wrong. Your help is much appreciated. I tried consoling the log and it works fine.
Can anyone suggest on how to do logging from springboot gradle project to aws cloudwatch?

This is not a valid Log4j2 configuration. Log4j2 uses plugins and the class name of appenders, filters, layouts, etc is never specified in the configuration.
I found an example configuration similar to yours at https://github.com/dibog/cloudwatch-logback-appender. Note that the name of the project is cloudwatch-logback-appender, so this appender is designed to work with Logback, not Log4j2.

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I read the spring boot documentation but I didn't see any configuration related to database for logging.
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I read the spring boot documentation but I didn't see any
configuration related to database for logging.
Because spring boot hands off that functionality to logging framework (slf4j + logback/log4j etc). So you need to configure your logging framework accordingly using it's configuration file (eg: logback.xml, logback-spring.xml, logback.groovy etc). Default logging frameworks in Spring boot is slf4j+logback. So checkout how you can use DBAppender.
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https://logback.qos.ch/manual/appenders.html#DBAppender
http://learningviacode.blogspot.com/2014/01/writing-logs-to-database.html
Log to database with LogBack
https://medium.com/#chakrar27/storing-log-data-in-postgresql-using-logback-db-appender-292891a9918
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
<appender name="stdout" class="ch.qos.logback.core.ConsoleAppender">
<!-- encoders are assigned the type ch.qos.logback.classic.encoder.PatternLayoutEncoder by default -->
<encoder>
<pattern>%d{HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%thread] %-5level %logger{5} - %msg%n
</pattern>
</encoder>
</appender>
<appender name="db" class="ch.qos.logback.classic.db.DBAppender">
<connectionSource
class="ch.qos.logback.core.db.DriverManagerConnectionSource">
<driverClass>org.postgresql.Driver</driverClass>
<url>jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/simple</url>
<user>postgres</user>
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<appender-ref ref="db" />
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</configuration>
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logging_event
logging_event_property
logging_event_exception
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https://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/manual/appenders.html#JDBCAppender
For Log4J2
http://smasue.github.io/log4j2-spring-database-appender

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I'm currently using SLF4J API for logging.
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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Is there something missing/wrong with the above file??
Is it possible to log (to a file) all the text that will be printed to console?
How does spring(or the project itself) read the logback.xml file? What if I rename it and place it in another folder?
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To answer your questions:
Nothing looks obviously wrong to me in the file you've posted, although I didn't try actually running it.
Just the way you did it is fine, with two appenders, one that goes to the file and the other to go to the console.
Logback by default looks in the classpath for the logback.xml file. Refer to the configuration page of the manual for the details. The way it gets there depends on your build system. When using Maven, I'd suggest putting it in src/main/resources. But if it ends up in WEB-INF/classes when deployed in your web app, that should work. If no matter what you put in your logback.xml file you are only getting console output (try adding a syntax error or renaming the file to test), that's what I'd look at first, to ensure that Logback is picking up the file right. It will default to showing everything just on the console if it can't find the file, though I think it shows a warning at the beginning that it's doing so. If it is picking up the file, you can try putting debug="true" in the <configuration> element, to see if there's an error that it's picking up that's causing it to not use the appender the way you're expecting.
Specifying the "DEBUG" level of logging, as you've done, will also get all higher levels as well.
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Your configuration looks OK, but you can try use your root level INFO instead DEBUG and if you have frameworks like spring, hibernate etc. Logback allow you uses another levels to them something like:
<logger name="org.hibernate" level="OFF" />
<logger name="org.springframework" level="INFO" />
<logger name="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc" level="INFO" />

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<configuration debug="true">
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<encoder>
<pattern>%date - %level - [%thread] - %logger - [%file:%line] - %msg%n</pattern>
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<label>normal</label>
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compile 'com.sndyuk:logback-more-appenders:1.1.0'
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10:56:33,020 |-WARN in ch.qos.logback.more.appenders.DataFluentAppender[FLUENT_TEXT] - Attempted to append to non started appender [FLUENT_TEXT].
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java.lang.NullPointerException
at ch.qos.logback.more.appenders.DataFluentAppender$FluentDaemonAppender.close(DataFluentAppender.java:72)
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I've did it and it's like the file is never loaded, no error but nothing gets to my fluetd socket.
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Thanks.
C.C.
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One way of doing it would be via the command line, see below.
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