I like the idea. No comments about implementation, leave it to others. But if it is done, maybe somebody very familiar with logging can also review Solr's current logging config. I suspect it is not optimized for troubleshooting at this point.
Regards, Alex. Personal website: http://www.outerthoughts.com/ Current project: http://www.solr-start.com/ - Accelerating your Solr proficiency On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 3:16 AM, Gregg Donovan <gregg...@gmail.com> wrote: > We have some metadata -- e.g. a request UUID -- that we log to every log > line using Log4J's MDC [1]. The UUID logging allows us to connect any log > lines we have for a given request across servers. Sort of like Zipkin [2]. > > Currently we're using EmbeddedSolrServer without sharding, so adding the > UUID is fairly simple, since everything is in one process and one thread. > But, we're testing a sharded HTTP implementation and running into some > difficulties getting this data passed around in a way that lets us trace > all log lines generated by a request to its UUID. >
