Customize log4net to create logs daily, in date.filename format – Revvity Signals

Date Posted: 2018-10-24
Product: TIBCO Spotfire®

Problem:

Customize log4net to create logs daily, in date.filename format

Solution:

Users/customer may want to customize logging in Web Player to create daily logs for the various available logging categories in "log4net.config".
We have taken "Spotfire.Dxp.Web.log" as an example in this article. - Browse to the "<Web Player installation folder>\webroot\app_data" folder.

- In an XML editor, locate and open the file "log4net.config". Be sure to create a back-up before editing.

*** Default setting:
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          <appender name="FileAppender" type="log4net.Appender.RollingFileAppender">
           <PreserveLogFileNameExtension value="true"/>
           <file value="<Web Player installation folder>\Logfiles\Spotfire.Dxp.Web.log"/>
           <appendToFile value="true"/>
           <rollingStyle value="Size"/>
           <maxSizeRollBackups value="4"/>
           <maximumFileSize value="500MB"/>
           <staticLogFileName value="false"/>
           <layout type="log4net.Layout.PatternLayout">
               <conversionPattern value="%-5level %date [%property{sessionId}, %property{pid}, %thread, %property{user}] %logger - %message%newline"/>
           </layout>
           <filter type="log4net.Filter.LoggerMatchFilter">
               <param name="AcceptOnMatch" value="false"/>
               <param name="LoggerToMatch" value="WebLogger."/>
           </filter>
           <filter type="log4net.Filter.LevelRangeFilter">
               <levelMin value="INFO"/>
               <acceptOnMatch value="true"/>
           </filter>
       </appender>
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- Add the following tags.

<datePattern value="dd.MM.yyyy'.Spotfire.Dxp.Web.log'" />
<rollingStyle value="Date"/>

- Sample after making the changes.
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          <appender name="FileAppender" type="log4net.Appender.RollingFileAppender">
           <PreserveLogFileNameExtension value="true"/>
           <file value="C:\Program Files\TIBCO\Spotfire Web Player\7.0.1\Logfiles\"/>
           <datePattern value="dd.MM.yyyy'.Spotfire.Dxp.Web.log'" />
           <appendToFile value="true"/>
           <rollingStyle value="Date"/>
           <maxSizeRollBackups value="4"/>
           <maximumFileSize value="100MB"/>
           <staticLogFileName value="false"/>
           <layout type="log4net.Layout.PatternLayout">
               <conversionPattern value="%-5level %date [%property{sessionId}, %property{pid}, %thread, %property{user}] %logger - %message%newline"/>
           </layout>
           <filter type="log4net.Filter.LoggerMatchFilter">
               <param name="AcceptOnMatch" value="false"/>
               <param name="LoggerToMatch" value="WebLogger."/>
           </filter>
           <filter type="log4net.Filter.LevelRangeFilter">
               <levelMin value="INFO"/>
               <acceptOnMatch value="true"/>
           </filter>
       </appender>
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- Save the file "log4net.config" and restart IIS/Web Player application pool for the changes to take effect. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31803537/log4net-rolling-daily-format-of-filename-with-date