logback-journal

systemd journal appender for Logback.

Installation

This appender is published in sonatype maven repository. If you are using maven, simply add the following in your pom.xml

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.gnieh</groupId>
  <artifactId>logback-journal</artifactId>
  <version>0.3.0</version>
</dependency>

if you are using sbt, add this to your build.sbt

libraryDependencies += "org.gnieh" % "logback-journal" % "0.3.0"

You also need the systemd journal library installed on your system to log to it. For newest version of systemd, journal is integrated in the systemd base library. Older version had a separate library named systemd-journal. This appender use systemd as a library by default. You can change this by using the systemd.library JVM property (e.g. -Dsystemd.library=systemd-journal)

Configuration

Basic configuration to use the systemd journal appender looks like this:

<configuration>

  <appender name="journal" class="org.gnieh.logback.SystemdJournalAppender" />

  <root level="debug">
    <appender-ref ref="journal" />
  </root>
</configuration>

The appender can be configured with the following properties