动态改变log4j的级别(level)

朱雀 2022-07-14 01:27 41阅读 0赞

转载：http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4598702/dynamically-changing-log4j-log-level

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     <p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:1em; padding-top:0px; padding-bottom:0px; border:0px; clear:both"> Changing the log level is simple; modifying other portions of the configuration will pose a more in depth approach.</p> 
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     <p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:1em; padding-top:0px; padding-bottom:0px; border:0px; clear:both"> The changes are permanent through the life cyle of the&nbsp;<code style="margin:0px; padding:1px 5px; border:0px; font-size:13px; font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,&quot;Lucida Console&quot;,&quot;Liberation Mono&quot;,&quot;DejaVu Sans Mono&quot;,&quot;Bitstream Vera Sans Mono&quot;,&quot;Courier New&quot;,monospace,sans-serif; background-color:rgb(239,240,241); white-space:pre-wrap">Logger</code>. On reinitialization the configuration will be read and used as setting the level at runtime does not persist the level change.</p> 
     <p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:1em; padding-top:0px; padding-bottom:0px; border:0px; clear:both"> <span style="margin:0px; padding:0px; border:0px">UPDATE:</span>&nbsp;If you are using Log4j 2 you should remove the calls to&nbsp;<code style="margin:0px; padding:1px 5px; border:0px; font-size:13px; font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,&quot;Lucida Console&quot;,&quot;Liberation Mono&quot;,&quot;DejaVu Sans Mono&quot;,&quot;Bitstream Vera Sans Mono&quot;,&quot;Courier New&quot;,monospace,sans-serif; background-color:rgb(239,240,241); white-space:pre-wrap">setLevel</code>&nbsp;per the&nbsp;<a href="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/manual/migration.html" style="margin:0px; padding:0px; border:0px; color:rgb(0,89,153); text-decoration:none" rel="nofollow">documentation</a>as this can be achieved via implementation classes.</p> 
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      <p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; padding-top:0px; padding-bottom:0px; border:0px; clear:both"> Calls to logger.setLevel() or similar methods are not supported in the API. Applications should remove these. Equivalent functionality is provided in the Log4j 2 implementation classes but may leave the application susceptible to changes in Log4j 2 internals.</p> 
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          <span style="margin:0px; padding:0px; border:0px">Note that the log4j 2 API does not provide a "setLevel" method.</span>&nbsp;–&nbsp; 
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          <span style="margin:0px; padding:0px; border:0px">But this only sets the root logger , isn't it? If individual levels are set for loggers under root, setting the root logger will have no effect on those LOGGER's. Wouldn't we have to do something like root.getLoggerRepository().getCurrentCategories(), iterate over each instance of the logger and set LEVELs for each logger? @AaronMcIver</span>&nbsp;–&nbsp; 
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          <span style="margin:0px; padding:0px; border:0px">@ChrisCantrell Log4j 2&nbsp;<a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23434252/programmatically-change-log-level-in-log4j2" style="margin:0px; padding:0px; border:0px; color:rgb(0,89,153); text-decoration:none" rel="nofollow">does provide a way to do this</a>, although it's not as simple.</span>&nbsp;–&nbsp; 
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          <span style="margin:0px; padding:0px; border:0px">Log4j2 can be configured to refresh its configuration by scanning the log4j2.xml file (or equivalent) at given intervals. E.g. &lt;Configuration status="warn" monitorInterval="5" name="tryItApp" packages=""&gt;</span>&nbsp;–&nbsp; 
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     <p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:1em; padding-top:0px; padding-bottom:0px; border:0px; clear:both"> Log4j is able to watch the&nbsp;<code style="margin:0px; padding:1px 5px; border:0px; font-size:13px; font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,&quot;Lucida Console&quot;,&quot;Liberation Mono&quot;,&quot;DejaVu Sans Mono&quot;,&quot;Bitstream Vera Sans Mono&quot;,&quot;Courier New&quot;,monospace,sans-serif; background-color:rgb(239,240,241); white-space:pre-wrap">log4j.xml</code>&nbsp;file for configuration changes. If you change the log4j file, log4j will automatically refresh the log levels according to your changes. See the documentation of&nbsp;<code style="margin:0px; padding:1px 5px; border:0px; font-size:13px; font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,&quot;Lucida Console&quot;,&quot;Liberation Mono&quot;,&quot;DejaVu Sans Mono&quot;,&quot;Bitstream Vera Sans Mono&quot;,&quot;Courier New&quot;,monospace,sans-serif; background-color:rgb(239,240,241); white-space:pre-wrap">org.apache.log4j.xml.DOMConfigurator.configureAndWatch(String,long</code>) for details. The default wait time between checks is 60 seconds. These changes would be persistent, since you directly change the configuration file on the filesystem. All you need to do is to invoke DOMConfigurator.configureAndWatch() once.</p> 
     <p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:1em; padding-top:0px; padding-bottom:0px; border:0px; clear:both"> <span style="margin:0px; padding:0px; border:0px">Caution: configureAndWatch method is unsafe for use in J2EE environments due to a Thread leak</span></p> 
     <h1 style="margin:0px 0px 1em; padding:0px; border:0px; font-size:21px; line-height:1.3; word-wrap:break-word"> JMX</h1> 
     <p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:1em; padding-top:0px; padding-bottom:0px; border:0px; clear:both"> Another way to set the log level (or reconfiguring in general) log4j is by using JMX. Log4j registers its loggers as JMX MBeans. Using the application servers MBeanServer consoles (or JDK's jconsole.exe) you can reconfigure each individual loggers. These changes are not persistent and would be reset to the config as set in the configuration file after you restart your application (server).</p> 
     <h1 style="margin:0px 0px 1em; padding:0px; border:0px; font-size:21px; line-height:1.3; word-wrap:break-word"> Self-Made</h1> 
     <p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:1em; padding-top:0px; padding-bottom:0px; border:0px; clear:both"> As described by Aaron, you can set the log level programmatically. You can implement it in your application in the way you would like it to happen. For example, you could have a GUI where the user or admin changes the log level and then call the&nbsp;<code style="margin:0px; padding:1px 5px; border:0px; font-size:13px; font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,&quot;Lucida Console&quot;,&quot;Liberation Mono&quot;,&quot;DejaVu Sans Mono&quot;,&quot;Bitstream Vera Sans Mono&quot;,&quot;Courier New&quot;,monospace,sans-serif; background-color:rgb(239,240,241); white-space:pre-wrap">setLevel()</code>&nbsp;methods on the logger. Whether you persist the settings somewhere or not is up to you.</p> 
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          <span style="margin:0px; padding:0px; border:0px">A word of caution regarding log4j watchdog approach: "Because the configureAndWatch launches a separate watchdog thread, and because there is no way to stop this thread in log4j 1.2, the configureAndWatch method is unsafe for use in J2EE envrironments where applications are recycled". Reference:&nbsp;<a href="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/1.2/faq.html#a3.6" style="margin:0px; padding:0px; border:0px; color:rgb(0,89,153); text-decoration:none" rel="nofollow">Log4J FAQ</a></span>&nbsp;–&nbsp; 
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          <span style="margin:0px; padding:0px; border:0px">If i was to use configureAndWatch functionality of Log4j I could stop that watchdog thread in an EJB's @PostDestroy method (that's a good enough indicator of when the container is shutting down) That's it ? Or is there more to it that I am missing..!</span>&nbsp;–&nbsp; 
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          <span style="margin:0px; padding:0px; border:0px">sorry I meant @PreDestroy method</span>&nbsp;–&nbsp; 
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          <span style="margin:0px; padding:0px; border:0px"><span style="margin:0px; padding:0px; border:0px">All you need to do is to invoke DOMConfigurator.configureAndWatch() once.</span>&nbsp;How can I achieve this ?</span>&nbsp;–&nbsp; 
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          <span style="margin:0px; padding:0px; border:0px">Does not seem to work in log4j2</span>&nbsp;–&nbsp; 
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if (Log4jReconfigurator.class.getResource("/" + name) != null) {
      String logConfigPath = Log4jReconfigurator.class.getResource("/" + name).getPath();
      logger.warn("Using log4j configuration: " + logConfigPath);
      try (InputStream defaultIs = Log4jReconfigurator.class.getResourceAsStream("/" + name)) {
        new DOMConfigurator().doConfigure(defaultIs, LogManager.getLoggerRepository());
      } catch (IOException e) {
        logger.error("Failed to reconfigure log4j configuration, could not find file " + logConfigPath + " on the classpath", e);
      } catch (FactoryConfigurationError e) {
        logger.error("Failed to reconfigure log4j configuration, could not load file " + logConfigPath, e);
      }
    } else {
      logger.error("Could not find log4j configuration file " + name + ".xml on classpath");
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          <span style="margin:0px; padding:0px; border:0px">what is the triggering point of this method? how does it know this method has to be invoked whenever there's a change in the log4j config?</span>&nbsp;–&nbsp; 
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          <span style="margin:0px; padding:0px; border:0px">No, it is on demand.</span>&nbsp;–&nbsp; 
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          <span style="margin:0px; padding:0px; border:0px">I still don't get what you mean "on demand". Can you please show a snippet where you hook this method up?</span>–&nbsp; 
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          <span style="margin:0px; padding:0px; border:0px">Here you go: This is a snippet from the Controller where we use it. We have an admin page with some links to dynamically reconfigure logging, which then makes a GET to the link&nbsp;<span style="margin:0px; padding:0px; border:0px">/admin/setLogLevel?level=Error</span>&nbsp;and then we catch this in the controller like this&nbsp;<span style="margin:0px; padding:0px; border:0px">@RequestMapping(value = "setLogLevel", method = RequestMethod.GET) public ModelAndView setLogLevel(@RequestParam(value = "level", required = true) String level) { Log4jReconfigurator.reconfigureExisting(level);</span></span>&nbsp;–&nbsp; 
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          <span style="margin:0px; padding:0px; border:0px">So, "on demand" means "when the user clicks the button" in my case</span>&nbsp;–&nbsp; 
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&lt;dependency&gt;
    &lt;groupId&gt;log4j&lt;/groupId&gt;
    &lt;artifactId&gt;apache-log4j-extras&lt;/artifactId&gt;
    &lt;version&gt;1.2.17&lt;/version&gt;
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