How to configure JBoss AS 7 to log to syslog?

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How do i configure jboss to log to syslog?

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 19 '12 at 16:13

Putting something like:

 <!-- Syslog events -->  <appender name="SYSLOG" class="org.apache.log4j.net.SyslogAppender">  <errorHandler class="org.jboss.logging.util.OnlyOnceErrorHandler"/>  <param name="Facility" value="LOCAL7"/>  <param name="FacilityPrinting" value="true"/>  <param name="SyslogHost" value="localhost"/>  <layout class="org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout">  <param name="ConversionPattern" value="[%d{ABSOLUTE},%c{1}] %m%n"/>  </layout>  </appender>

in your log4j.conf would work... Just make sure to tune it down to what you actually want, just uses standard log4j context, you definitely wouldn't want all of your jvm logs to be spitting out to syslog in most app server configs...

where do i put log4j.conf? there isn't one by default in jboss 7 =/ — Carl Hörberg, Jan 19 '12 at 16:15

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 12 '13 at 10:18

I am using this: https://github.com/kifj/jboss-syslog

     <profile>
         <subsystem xmlns="urn:jboss:domain:logging:1.2">
+               <custom-handler name="SYSLOG" class="x1.jboss.syslog.SyslogHandler"     module="x1.jboss-syslog">
+                       <level name="INFO"/>
+                       <properties>
+                           <property name="loghost" value="localhost"/>
+                           <property name="application" value="jboss-as7"/>
+                       </properties>
+               </custom-handler>
             <console-handler name="CONSOLE">
                 <level name="INFO"/>
                 <formatter>
@@ -89,8 +100,7 @@
             <root-logger>
                 <level name="INFO"/>
                 <handlers>
-                    <handler name="CONSOLE"/>
-                    <handler name="FILE"/>
+                    <handler name="SYSLOG"/>
                 </handlers>
             </root-logger>
         </subsystem>

for access log it still does not work. the tag wants to write to file, and have no idea how to use a custom logger there.

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 06 '16 at 08:43

JBoss AS 7.2 has syslog handler, so you can use:

<syslog-handler name="SYSLOG">
    <level name="DEBUG" />
    <server-address value="<syslog.server>"/>
    <port value="<syslog.port>"/>
</syslog-handler>

...

<root-logger>
    <handlers>
    ...
        <handler name="SYSLOG" />
    ...
    </handlers>
</root-logger>

More info in documentation: https://docs.jboss.org/author/display/AS72/Admin+Guide#AdminGuide-sysloghandler

How to configure JBoss AS 7 to log to syslog?

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