SocketAppender and PatternLayout

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I have a logger that send log to a log server storage. This work fine but the patternlayout isn't used. With or without that doesn't change anything. I believe remember to read somewhere that socketappender use is own pattern and not others. ``` ``` But on this documentation (and a few other) thay use this. Example from this doc : ```

Accepted Answer

It seems that SocketAppender don't use a layout.

SocketAppenders do not use a layout. They ship a serialized LoggingEvent object to the server side.

See documentation here

So I use a SyslogAppender to replace. It's not perfect because of unused possibilies (like facility and priority) but works fine.

SocketAppender and PatternLayout

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