Taming openHAB 2 Logging

[ThomDietrich]

While we are at it, I’ve posted aa solution on how to send the logs to a Logstash/Elasticsearch server here:

Logging to Logstash+Elasticsearch+Kibana

A few weeks ago I looked into piping my openHAB logs to Elasticsearch via logstash. I found the solution to work reliably but realized that the combination wasn’t as interesting to me as I thought. Steps to take: Install Logstash, Elasticsearch and Kibana Configure a “log4j” input for Logstash Add he following logging setting to the openHAB log file /var/lib/openhab2/etc/org.ops4j.pax.logging.cfg:log4j.rootLogger = WARN,out,tcp,osgi:* # add tcp here # # TCP appender - Logstash+Elasticsearch+K…