Log::Dispatch::Kafka - a simple dispatcher to send logging data to LinkedIn's Kafka
Log::Dispatch::Kafka uses Kafka::Client to send log messages as events to an instance of LinkedIn's <Kafka|http://sna-projects.com/kafka/>.
In your log4perl.conf (or its moral equivalent), configure it as such:
log4perl.appender.KAFKA=Log::Dispatch::Kafka
log4perl.appender.KAFKA.host=192.168.1.100
log4perl.appender.KAFKA.port=9092
log4perl.appender.KAFKA.layout = Log::Log4perl::Layout::PatternLayout
log4perl.appender.KAFKA.layout.ConversionPattern = %m
Something to consider when using this; if your Kafka server isn't on the same node as the application doing the logging, you're going to be opening a socket and talking across the wire for every log message. This is probably not what you want.
Andrew Nelson, <anelson at cpan.org>
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