Kafka Connect - Install additional log4j appenders

[mmuehlbeyer]

ok thanks for the information

did you try to switch log4j.rootLogger to DEBUG? just to get more insight.

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Problem with writing Kafka Connect `log4j` logs to a Kafka Topic

was able to get it up and running config below important: you need the following jars in your $CONFLUENT_INSTALL_DIR/share/java/confluent-common common-logging-6.1.1.jar confluent-log4j-extensions-6.1.1.jar get it from: https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/io.confluent/common-logging https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/io.confluent/confluent-log4j-extensions config starts here log4j.rootLogger=DEBUG, stdout, connectAppender # Send the logs to the console. # log4j.appender.…

there was a similar challenge sending logs to a kafka topic, it may help

best,
michael