Ignite Log4j not creating logs as ignite.log

Question

Configured Ignite Log4J module and logs are getting generated as ignite-uniqueid.log for each and every time. My requirement is to get the logs with single ignite.log only.

Answer 1

Please, take a look at a similar question.

I found it useful to replace the Ignite's Log4jRollingFileAppender with the default RollingFileAppender that doesn't modify a destination filename.

More details:

Change Ignite configuration file:

...
    <property name="gridLogger">
       <bean class="org.apache.ignite.logger.log4j.Log4JLogger">
          <constructor-arg type="java.lang.String" value="config/ignite-logging-log4j.xml"/>
       </bean>
    </property>
...

Made the following changes inside the ignite-logging-log4j.xml file settings. You can use the default one from the Ignite distribution zip as a placeholder. Change the FILE appender to this:

 <!--<appender name="FILE" class="org.apache.ignite.logger.log4j.Log4jRollingFileAppender">-->
    <appender name="FILE" class="org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender">
        <param name="Threshold" value="DEBUG"/>
        <param name="File" value="C:/Ignite/log/MyIgnite.log"/>
        <param name="Append" value="true"/>
        <param name="MaxFileSize" value="1KB"/>
        <param name="MaxBackupIndex" value="10"/>
        <layout class="org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout">
            <param name="ConversionPattern" value="[%d{ISO8601}][%-5p][%t][%c{1}] %m%n"/>
        </layout>
    </appender>

Start Ignite instance.

public static void main(String[] args){
    Ignition.start("config/<your-ignite-config-filename>.xml");
}

After that, you should observe a bunch of ~1KB log files within your directory:

-rw-r--r-- 1  177 May  1 01:15 MyIgnite.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 1512 May  1 01:15 MyIgnite.log.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 1050 May  1 01:15 MyIgnite.log.10
-rw-r--r-- 1 1146 May  1 01:15 MyIgnite.log.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 1402 May  1 01:15 MyIgnite.log.3