NAME

Log::Log4perl::Appender::RabbitMQ - Log to RabbitMQ

SYNOPSIS

use Log::Log4perl;

my $log4perl_config = q{
    log4perl.logger = DEBUG, RabbitMQ

    log4perl.appender.RabbitMQ             = Log::Log4perl::Appender::RabbitMQ
    log4perl.appender.RabbitMQ.exchange    = myexchange
    log4perl.appender.RabbitMQ.routing_key = mykey
    log4perl.appender.RabbitMQ.layout      = Log::Log4perl::Layout::PatternLayout
};

Log::Log4perl::init(\$log4perl_config);

my $log = Log::Log4perl->get_logger();

$log->warn('this is my message');

DESCRIPTION

This is a Log::Log4perl appender for publishing log messages to RabbitMQ group using Net::RabbitMQ. Defaults for unspecified options are provided by Net::RabbitMQ and can be found in it's documentation.

OPTIONS

All of the following options can be passed to the constructor, or be specified in the Log4perl config file. Unless otherwise stated, any options not specified will get whatever defaults Net::RabbitMQ provides. See the documentation for that module for more details.

Connetion Options

These options are used in the call to Net::RabbitMQ::connect() when the appender is created.

user

password

port

vhost

channel_max

frame_max

heartbeat

Publishing Options

These options are used in the call to Net::RabbitMQ::publish() for each message.

routing_key

The routing key for messages. If the routing key contains a %c or a %p it will be interpolated for each message. %c will be replaced with the Log4perl category. %p will be replaces with the Log4perl priority.

Defaults to %C

exchange

The exchange to publish the message too. This exchange must already exist.

mandatory

boolean. Flag published messages mandatory.

immediate

boolean. Flag published messages immediate.

AUTHOR

Trevor J. Little, <bundacia@tjlittle.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2010 by Trevor J. Little

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