Mule ESB Log4j2 support - mule

Question

Does Mule ESB support log4j2? I am trying to add log4j2.xml in my esb app, but even after adding log4j2.xml, my mule esb app is defaulting to its own log4j 1.2 implementation. I want my esb app to read my log4j2.xml file and take/consume in the parameters what I am specifying in my log4j2.xml and if log4j2.xml file is present then it should not read its own log4j 1.2 implementation log properties file.
I am having problem in implementing log4j2(.xml) with mule esb app. Any help would be very much appreciated.

Answer 1

The latest version of mule esb is supporting the log4j2 . Hope the version may be tightly coupled that could be the reason it might not work.

Answer 2

Log4j2 has an adapter allows application that are coded against the log4j-1.2 API to use the log4j2 implementation. (See also the FAQ.)
Steps to achieve this:
remove the log4j-1.2.x.jar from the classpath
add the log4j-1.2-api-2.0.jar jar to the classpath.
ensure that log4j-api-2.0.jar and log4j-core-2.0.jar are in the classpath
Now both the log4j-1.2 API and the log4j2 API will delegate to the log4j2 implementation. A sample configuration is here.

Answer 3

Log4j2 is implicitly supported from Mule-3.6.0 onwards. For more info please go through this link Asynchronous Logging in Mule

Answer 4

Mule esb supports log4j.
check if you have imported slf4j libraries.
You need to create/rename log4j2-test.xml

Answer 5

These are my log4j2.xml and my pom.xml files, I´m using mule v7.1.
I hope it helps.
log4j2.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Configuration status="debug">
<Properties>
<Property name="log-path">/my_path/my_logs/my_app</Property>
<Property name="app-id">my_app</Property>
</Properties>
<Appenders>
<RollingFile name="file-log" fileName="${log-path}/${app-id}.log"
filePattern="${log-path}/${app-id}-%d{yyyy-MM-dd}.log">
<PatternLayout>
<pattern>[%-5level] %d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%t] %c{1} - %msg%n
</pattern>
</PatternLayout>
<Policies>
<TimeBasedTriggeringPolicy interval="1"
modulate="true" />
</Policies>
</RollingFile>
<Console name="console" target="SYSTEM_OUT">
<PatternLayout
pattern="[%-5level] %d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%t] %c{1} - %msg%n" />
</Console>
</Appenders>
<Loggers>
<Logger name="org.apache.logging.log4j" level="warn" additivity="false">
<appender-ref ref="file-log" />
<appender-ref ref="console" />
</Logger>
<Root level="info" additivity="false">
<appender-ref ref="file-log" />
<appender-ref ref="console" />
</Root>`enter code here`
</Loggers>
</Configuration>
pom.xml
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
<artifactId>log4j-api</artifactId>
<version>2.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
<artifactId>log4j-core</artifactId>
<version>2.0</version>
</dependency>