NAME

Log::Log4perl::Appender::Journald - Journald appender for Log4perl

SYNOPSIS

  use Log::Log4perl;

  my $log4perl_conf = <<EOC;
  log4perl.rootLogger = DEBUG, Journal
  log4perl.appender.Journal = Log::Log4perl::Appender::Journald
  log4perl.appender.Journal.layout = Log::Log4perl::Layout::NoopLayout
  EOC

  Log::Log4perl->init(\$log4perl_conf);
  Log::Log4perl::MDC->put(HELLO => 'World');
  my $logger = Log::Log4perl->get_logger('log4perl.rootLogger');
  $logger->info("Time to die.");
  $logger->error("Time to err.");

DESCRIPTION

This module provides a Log::Log4Perl appender that directs log messages to systemd-journald.service(8) via Log::Journald. It makes use of the structured logging capability, appending Log4perl MDCs with each message.

SEE ALSO

• Log::Journald -- Journal daemon client bindings.

• Log::Log4perl -- A logging framework

COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2014 Lubomir Rintel

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

AUTHORS

Lubomir Rintel, <lkundrak@v3.sk>

The code is hosted on GitHub http://github.com/lkundrak/perl-Log-Journald. Bug fixes and feature enhancements are always welcome.