# \[ANN\] Log4j2 Elasticsearch appender
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ann-log4j2-elasticsearch-appender/18732
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [July 18, 2014, 8:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ann-log4j2-elasticsearch-appender/18732 "2014-07-18T08:08:07Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@jprante](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jprante)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2014, 8:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ann-log4j2-elasticsearch-appender/18732/1 "2014-07-18T08:08:07Z")
Hi,
I released a Log4j2 Elasticsearch appender
> **[jprante/log4j2-elasticsearch](https://github.com/jprante/log4j2-elasticsearch)**
>
> log4j2-elasticsearch - Log4j2 Elasticsearch appender
in the hope it is useful.
Best,
Jörg
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### Author:  [@brian\_yoder](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/brian_yoder)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2014, 11:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ann-log4j2-elasticsearch-appender/18732/2 "2014-07-18T23:52:41Z")
Awesome! I had been wondering to myself about this for a while.
Brian
On Friday, July 18, 2014 4:08:14 AM UTC-4, Jörg Prante wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I released a Log4j2 Elasticsearch appender
>
> [GitHub - jprante/log4j2-elasticsearch: Log4j2 Elasticsearch appender](https://github.com/jprante/log4j2-elasticsearch)
>
> in the hope it is useful.
>
> Best,
>
> Jörg
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### Author:  [@seralf](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/seralf)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2014, 3:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ann-log4j2-elasticsearch-appender/18732/3 "2014-07-19T15:59:05Z")
I'll try it as soon as I can!
thanks,
Alfredo
🙂
Il giorno venerdì 18 luglio 2014 10:08:14 UTC+2, Jörg Prante ha scritto:
> Hi,
>
> I released a Log4j2 Elasticsearch appender
>
> [GitHub - jprante/log4j2-elasticsearch: Log4j2 Elasticsearch appender](https://github.com/jprante/log4j2-elasticsearch)
>
> in the hope it is useful.
>
> Best,
>
> Jörg
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### Author:  [@Ivan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ivan)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2014, 7:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ann-log4j2-elasticsearch-appender/18732/4 "2014-07-21T19:14:06Z")
I was indexing events into Elasticsearch via the standard SocketAppender
into Logstash, but I stopped doing so since the SocketAppender was not
releasing threads. Great to see a direct approach, but I like to use
Logstash in the middle as a buffer in order to batch events.
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On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 8:59 AM, Alfredo Serafini [seralf@gmail.com](mailto:seralf@gmail.com) wrote:
> I'll try it as soon as I can!
> thanks,
> Alfredo
> 🙂
>
> Il giorno venerdì 18 luglio 2014 10:08:14 UTC+2, Jörg Prante ha scritto:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I released a Log4j2 Elasticsearch appender
> >
> > [GitHub - jprante/log4j2-elasticsearch: Log4j2 Elasticsearch appender](https://github.com/jprante/log4j2-elasticsearch)
> >
> > in the hope it is useful.
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Jörg
>
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### Author:  [@jprante](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jprante)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2014, 7:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ann-log4j2-elasticsearch-appender/18732/5 "2014-07-21T19:47:26Z")
The Log4j appender is batching events because it is using bulk indexing. If
you are worried, you can set the bulk action size to an extreme high value
and increase heap to some GB only for buffering log messages, together with
a reasonable flush interval.
Jörg
On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 9:14 PM, Ivan Brusic [ivan@brusic.com](mailto:ivan@brusic.com) wrote:
> I was indexing events into Elasticsearch via the standard SocketAppender
> into Logstash, but I stopped doing so since the SocketAppender was not
> releasing threads. Great to see a direct approach, but I like to use
> Logstash in the middle as a buffer in order to batch events.
>
> --
> Ivan
>
> On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 8:59 AM, Alfredo Serafini [seralf@gmail.com](mailto:seralf@gmail.com)
> wrote:
>
> > I'll try it as soon as I can!
> > thanks,
> > Alfredo
> > 🙂
> >
> > Il giorno venerdì 18 luglio 2014 10:08:14 UTC+2, Jörg Prante ha scritto:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I released a Log4j2 Elasticsearch appender
> > >
> > > [GitHub - jprante/log4j2-elasticsearch: Log4j2 Elasticsearch appender](https://github.com/jprante/log4j2-elasticsearch)
> > >
> > > in the hope it is useful.
> > >
> > > Best,
> > >
> > > Jörg
> >
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 1:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ann-log4j2-elasticsearch-appender/18732/6 "2017-07-06T01:14:26Z")