[LOG4J2-1210] Burst filter / summarizer for SMTP appender (mass email filter)

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 2.3, 2.4, 2.4.1, 2.5
• Component/s: Appenders
• Labels: patch
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Thies Wellpott
• Created: 03/Dec/15 16:25
• Updated: 20/Sep/18 23:57

Description

Typical use case for SMTP appender: Send all ERROR-logs via Email to support/developer.
On a broken network or database this can cause hundreds of the same error email, flooding your inbox.

Collecting events and sending of a summary email after a configurable time would be great.

My solution for LOG4J2-1192 also contains a solution for this.