Sentry with log4j2.properties

I've the same problem.

Here is my log4j2.properties

appenders = console,Sentry
 
appender.console.type = Console
appender.console.name = STDOUT
appender.console.layout.type = PatternLayout
appender.console.layout.pattern = ${env:log4j.csl.pattern:-info}

appender.Sentry=io.sentry.log4j.SentryAppender
appender.Sentry.name=Sentry
appender.Sentry.type=Sentry

 
rootLogger.level = ${env:log4j.root.loglevel:-info}
rootLogger.appenderRefs = stdout
rootLogger.appenderRef.stdout.ref = STDOUT


loggers=csl,sentry
logger.csl.name = io.sirnino
logger.csl.level = ${env:log4j.csl.loglevel:-debug}
logger.csl.additivity = false
logger.csl.appenderRefs = stdout
logger.csl.appenderRef.stdout.ref = STDOUT

logger.sentry.name = sentry
logger.sentry.level = WARN
logger.sentry.appenderRefs = Sentry

The app starts properly but, in a nutshell, seems to ignore the Sentry logger. Any idea?

This solution for integrating sentry with log4j2.properties worked for me perfectly along with stdout logging.

log4j.rootLogger=INFO, stdout, sentry
log4j.appender.stdout=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender
log4j.appender.stdout.Target=System.out
log4j.appender.stdout.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.stdout.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss} [%t] %-5p %c{1}:%L - %m%n

log4j.appender.sentry=io.sentry.log4j.SentryAppender
log4j.appender.sentry.Threshold=error

For this, I had to add log4j 1.x version of sentry to my pom.xml

In my case with log4j 2.17, I needed to add packages = io.sentry.log4j2 to my log4j2.properties file.

Full file:

status = error
dest = err
name = MyName
packages = io.sentry.log4j2

monitorInterval = 5

appender.console.type = Console
appender.console.name = LogToConsole
appender.console.layout.type = JsonLayout
appender.console.layout.compact = true
appender.console.layout.eventEol = true
appender.console.layout.properties = true

appender.sentry.name = Sentry
appender.sentry.type = Sentry
appender.sentry.dsn = https://key@my.domain.com

rootLogger.level = ${env:LOG_LEVEL:-debug}
rootLogger.appenderRef.console.ref = LogToConsole
rootLogger.appenderRef.sentry.ref = Sentry

It should work also with log4j2.properties. Have you tried and it failed? Maybe the docs should explicitly state that it's supported.

If it doesn't work, you can raise an issue on GitHub:

https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-java/issues