Logging via Jabber

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Monks,

I have an application that uses log4perl for logging and I am currently thinking about adding logging via Jabber to it.

To my surprise I found that there does not seem to be an corresponding log4perl-appender on CPAN.

So I ask myself: Is there a reason for that? Is maybe logging via Jabber a bad idea?

How would you make log-messages available from remote in real-time?

Many thanks!

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Re: Logging via Jabber by f00li5h (Chaplain) on Dec 01, 2008 at 06:19 UTC
It doesn't sound like too bad an idea to me... Log::Dispatch::Jabber. `@_=qw; ask f00li5h to appear and remain for a moment of pretend better than a lifetime;;s;;@_[map hex,split'',B204316D8C2A4516DE];;y/05/os/&print;`	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Logging via Jabber by morgon (Priest) on Dec 01, 2008 at 08:31 UTC
As I said - I am using Log4perl. Or is there a way to use Log::Dispatch::Jabber as a log4perl-appender?	[reply]
Re^3: Logging via Jabber by fmerges (Chaplain) on Dec 01, 2008 at 08:58 UTC
Hi, I think you can use the Log::Dispatch modules as appender, look at the man page of Log::Log4perl::Appender. Regards, fmerges at irc.freenode.net	[reply]
Re^3: Logging via Jabber by f00li5h (Chaplain) on Dec 01, 2008 at 15:03 UTC
I was more pointing at prior art than at a particular solution for log4perl. It does seem reasonable that this module woudl play nice though... ... perhaps with a wrapper or some tasty curry. Please excuse the mathematical handwaving `@_=qw; ask f00li5h to appear and remain for a moment of pretend better than a lifetime;;s;;@_[map hex,split'',B204316D8C2A4516DE];;y/05/os/&print;`	[reply] [d/l]