Ref:
[1] - Defining 1 logback file per level
[2] - logback - manual
[3] - Akka - Log into files
In my last memo about how to use logback in Akka to log into file system, I showed the way to config logback.xml.
However, recently I find it killing me when I use this log file for bug-shooting, because all the log, including debug, info, warning, error are all in one file. And what I am really looking for is error, which is really rare in the log file.
So, it seems reasonable to place logs of different level into different files. In my case, which would also cover most cases, I will place all the info log line into info.log, and all the error log and above to the error.log.
Since we are place log into different files, we are going to use multiple appenders.
To put info log one file
<appender name="FILE" class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.RollingFileAppender">
<file>log/info.log</file>
<rollingPolicy class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.TimeBasedRollingPolicy">
<!-- Daily rollover with compression -->
<fileNamePattern>process-log-%d{yyyy-MM-dd}.gz</fileNamePattern>
<!-- keep 30 days worth of history -->
<maxHistory>90</maxHistory>
</rollingPolicy>
<append>true</append>
<!-- encoders are assigned the type
ch.qos.logback.classic.encoder.PatternLayoutEncoder by default -->
<encoder>
<pattern>%d,%msg%n</pattern>
</encoder>
<filter class="ch.qos.logback.classic.filter.LevelFilter">
<level>INFO</level>
<onMatch>ACCEPT</onMatch>
<onMismatch>DENY</onMismatch>
</filter>
</appender>The key point is in the filter element. This filter uses LevelFilter to decide which level of log should be logged.
To put error and all levels above to another file
<appender name="ERROR_FILE" class = "ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.RollingFileAppender">
<file>
log/error.log
</file>
<rollingPolicy class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.TimeBasedRollingPolicy">
<!-- daily rollover with compression -->
<fileNamePattern>error-log-%d{yyyy-MM-dd}.gz</fileNamePattern>
<!-- keep 1 week worth of history -->
<maxHistory>100</maxHistory>
</rollingPolicy>
<encoder>
<pattern>%date{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss ZZZZ} %message%n</pattern>
</encoder>
<filter class="ch.qos.logback.classic.filter.ThresholdFilter">
<level>ERROR</level>
</filter>
</appender>In this example, we use ThresholdFilter to select all the levels above the error to log file.
Then, put two appenders together
This is the tricky part. We ganna use two root logger in the same logback.xml.
<configuration>
<appender name="FILE" class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.RollingFileAppender">
<file>log/process.log</file>
<rollingPolicy class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.TimeBasedRollingPolicy">
<!-- Daily rollover with compression -->
<fileNamePattern>process-log-%d{yyyy-MM-dd}.gz</fileNamePattern>
<!-- keep 30 days worth of history -->
<maxHistory>90</maxHistory>
</rollingPolicy>
<append>true</append>
<!-- encoders are assigned the type
ch.qos.logback.classic.encoder.PatternLayoutEncoder by default -->
<encoder>
<pattern>%d,%msg%n</pattern>
</encoder>
<filter class="ch.qos.logback.classic.filter.LevelFilter">
<level>INFO</level>
<onMatch>ACCEPT</onMatch>
<onMismatch>DENY</onMismatch>
</filter>
</appender>
<appender name="ERROR_FILE" class = "ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.RollingFileAppender">
<file>
log/error.log
</file>
<rollingPolicy class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.TimeBasedRollingPolicy">
<!-- daily rollover with compression -->
<fileNamePattern>error-log-%d{yyyy-MM-dd}.gz</fileNamePattern>
<!-- keep 1 week worth of history -->
<maxHistory>100</maxHistory>
</rollingPolicy>
<encoder>
<pattern>%date{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss ZZZZ} %message%n</pattern>
</encoder>
<filter class="ch.qos.logback.classic.filter.ThresholdFilter">
<level>ERROR</level>
</filter>
</appender>
<root level="ERROR">
<appender-ref ref="ERROR_FILE" />
</root>
<root level="INFO">
<appender-ref ref="FILE" />
</root>
</configuration>Finally
Now, in your SomeActor.scala:
class SomeActor extends Actor with ActorLogging {
implicit val ec = context.dispatcher
def receive = {
case x: SomeMsg =>
log.info("will be logged into info.log")
log.error("will be logged into error.log")
}
}Hope this will help you.