NAME

Log::Dispatch::Kafka - a simple dispatcher to send logging data to LinkedIn's Kafka

DESCRIPTION

Log::Dispatch::Kafka uses Kafka::Client to send log messages as events to an instance of LinkedIn's <Kafka|http://sna-projects.com/kafka/>.

SYNOPSIS

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

WARNING

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.

AUTHOR

Andrew Nelson, <anelson at cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

Copyright 2011 Magazines.com, LLC

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either: the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; or the Artistic License.

See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/ for more information.