Monitor applications with Log4j Appender for S3 and SQS

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Use lightweight Log4j appender for Amazon S3 to collect your application logs in one place, preview the last 2000 lines of logs right from the web and most important - monitor log stream and receive alerts. What can be better than this? Simply use the jar and configuration instructions.

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Submitted By: Maxf
AWS Products Used: Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon SQS
Language(s): Java
License: Apache License 2.0
Source Control Access: http://code.google.com/p/nebulent-­log4j-­appenders/
Created On: July 30, 2010 5:53 PM GMT
Last Updated: August 16, 2010 5:23 PM GMT
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We make use of SQS to push the logs through and monitor them as well.

Instructions on Using:

Add the following snippet to log4j.xml

For S3Log4jAppender:

For S3_SQS log4j appender:


sqsQueueName - Amazon SQS queue name(for storing logs)
awsAccessKeyId -
awsSecretAccessKey -
s3Path - is the S3 path where logs are uploaded
maxMessageCount - is the max message count for the local buffer(when the local buffer is full then all messages from this buffer are transferred to S3 system)
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