Configure Log4j 2 to store logging information in database table using Hibernate

Hibernate ORM
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I would like to configure log4j2 to store log information in a database table.

I know it works using java,sql,Connection, but I’d like to map the table exactly as I map the other table in order to take advantages of Hibernate first and second level cache.

This is the working code BUT the connection is just a “trick”

<JDBC name="PostgreSQLDatabase" tableName="plugin_luminare3.app_logs">
	<ConnectionFactory
		class="luminare.MainTest" method="getPGConnection" />
	<Column name="LOG_ID" pattern="%u" />
	<Column name="ENTRY_DATE" isEventTimestamp="true" />
	<Column name="LOG_LEVEL" pattern="%level" />
	<Column name="MESSAGE" pattern="%m" />
</JDBC>

Thanks in advance

2

Hibernate is useful for data that gets updated. Logs are append-only, so just use a native SQL to fetch the log entries.

What advantage would Hibernate bring if you mapped that table? Second-level caching is also useful to reduce load on Primary nodes, as scaling reads is easy as you can just use database replication to span more nodes.

3

Hello Vlad, thank you for the answer; I’ll use native java.sql Connection to manage this stuff.
Luca