We would like to proudly announce our first public release of ‘logback-redis’. This library enables JVM applications to log directly into a Redis+ELK stack with logback.

The logback-redis appender has been battle-tested in conjunction with logstash-logback-encoder [1], which takes care of JSON-encoding and buffering.

We aimed for:

developer-friendliness (easy to configure, safe to use)
maximum throughput (Redis pipelining support)
high software quality

We use this library for apps in a RELK (Redis-Elasticsearch-Logstash-Kibana) environment in production for over six months, handling easily 1000 messages/second per host, used by over 50 installations concurrently.

Why did we implemented another solution?

> We experienced load problems with existing libraries at 100 m/s.

Another similiar library is aqlu/logstash-logback-encoder-extends [2].

We welcome any feedback at https://github.com/idealo/logback-redis.

[1] https://github.com/logstash/logstash-logback-encoder

[2] https://github.com/aqlu/logstash-logback-encoder-extends

Lars K.W. Gohlke

Software gardener User-Services

idealo internet GmbH

Ritterstraße 11

10969 Berlin, Deutschland

E-Mail: lars.gohlke@idealo.de

Geschäftsführer:

Dr. Albrecht von Sonntag, Dr. Philipp-Christopher Peitsch, Jörn Rehse

HRB 76749 – Amtsgericht Berlin-Charlottenburg