This is a very basic log4j appender which stores records in riak. The aim of this project is to build a high performance, low maintenance logger which can be used for real time system monitoring.

This is not a replacement for appending to a log file, this will always have a place in recording historical events or errors. I am attempting to overcome the sometimes daunting task of using grep/sed/awk to mine information from logs.

At the moment this library stores log events in riak encoded as JSON. Each record includes a sequence number to enable simple analysis of data loss.

This library is roughly feature complete for my first test run. That said I am keen to see some data before doing another round of hacking. The features I will be working on next are:

• HTTPS support
• basic auth support
• proxy support

This library depends on Netty which is a NIO client server framework which enables quick and easy development of network applications such as protocol servers and clients.

When looking for some baseline values for the http connection re-use I chose the following values (see Wikipedia - HTTP persistent connection).

• Max Connections per protocol/host/port is 5
• Connection Idle timeout is 115 seconds