Spring boot logging into mysql database

Question

I have to put all the log data (i.e., debug, info, error) into mysql database instead of to file/console. I read the spring boot documentation but I didn't see any configuration related to database for logging.

https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/html/howto-logging.html

Also tried the following link but its also not working. https://www.tutorialspoint.com/log4j/log4j_logging_database.htm

Can anyone help me to do this. Thanks.

Answer 1

I read the spring boot documentation but I didn't see any configuration related to database for logging.

Because spring boot hands off that functionality to logging framework (slf4j + logback/log4j etc). So you need to configure your logging framework accordingly using it's configuration file (eg: logback.xml, logback-spring.xml, logback.groovy etc). Default logging frameworks in Spring boot is slf4j+logback. So checkout how you can use DBAppender.

For Logback

https://logback.qos.ch/manual/appenders.html#DBAppender http://learningviacode.blogspot.com/2014/01/writing-logs-to-database.html Log to database with LogBack https://medium.com/@chakrar27/storing-log-data-in-postgresql-using-logback-db-appender-292891a9918

1. create logback.xml file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
    <appender name="stdout" class="ch.qos.logback.core.ConsoleAppender">
        <!-- encoders are assigned the type ch.qos.logback.classic.encoder.PatternLayoutEncoder by default -->
        <encoder>
            <pattern>%d{HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%thread] %-5level %logger{5} - %msg%n
            </pattern>
        </encoder>
    </appender>
    <appender name="db" class="ch.qos.logback.classic.db.DBAppender">
        <connectionSource
            class="ch.qos.logback.core.db.DriverManagerConnectionSource">
            <driverClass>org.postgresql.Driver</driverClass>
            <url>jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/simple</url>
            <user>postgres</user>
            <password>root</password> <!-- no password -->
        </connectionSource>
    </appender>

    <!-- the level of the root level is set to DEBUG by default. -->
    <root level="TRACE">
        <appender-ref ref="stdout" />
        <appender-ref ref="db" />
    </root>
</configuration>

2. Create the 3 tables

logging_event

logging_event_property

logging_event_exception

They must exist before DBAppender can be used

For Log4J

https://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/manual/appenders.html#JDBCAppender

For Log4J2

http://smasue.github.io/log4j2-spring-database-appender