Starting centralised logfile analysing with ELK stack (elasticsearch, logstash, kibana)

The only thing that has changed is it uses the XML format for the config instead of the .properties file. But all the same parameters are the same.

You can probably figure it out just by looking at your existing log4j2.xml file. But if not see Log4j – Configuring Log4j 2.

Note, other options for centralized logging with openHAB:

There are of course others.

ELKI stack is pretty heavy weight and Elasticsearch just by itself is going to consume a lot of resources. I don’t know about these other approaches.

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