[LOG4J2-3197] Support agentless logging to Datadog

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 2.14.1
• Component/s: Layouts
• Assignee: Volkan Yazici
• Reporter: Mikael Ståldal
• Created: 27/Nov/21 16:29
• Updated: 29/Nov/21 20:33

Description

The documentation for Datadog contains information on how to setup Log4j 2 to send logs to Datadog. However, for the agentless configuration, it says its not possible with Log4j 2 and resorts to bridging to Logback:

https://docs.datadoghq.com/logs/log_collection/java/?tab=log4j2#agentless-logging

The problem is that the JSON formatted log events needs to be prefixed with an API key (outside of the JSON structure). This is possible with Logback, but supposedly not with Log4j 2.

This configuration is arguably a bit strange, but it would be good if Log4j 2 could support it, since it is likely a relevant use case.