[LOG4J2-545] Multiple FlumeAppender Agents

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: Flume Appender
• Assignee: Ralph Goers
• Reporter: Michael Friedmann
• Created: 20/Feb/14 16:31
• Updated: 11/Sep/14 00:20

Description

Currently, when configuring a FlumeAppender in log4j2.xml, each Agent is configured on a separate line, e.g.:

<Agent host="host1" port="port1" />
<Agent host="host2" port="port2" />

This makes it difficult to configure dynamically via properties as one may not know ahead of time how many Flume agents are available.

Consider supporting the following configuration:

<Agent hosts="host1:port1,host2:port2" />

This allows for a single property containing all the hosts and ports to be injected at runtime.