Instrumenting Logback

.. _manual-logback:

##################### Instrumenting Logback #####################

The metrics-logback module provides InstrumentedAppender, a Logback_ Appender implementation which records the rate of logged events by their logging level.

.. _Logback: https://logback.qos.ch/

You add it to the root logger programmatically:

.. code-block:: java

final LoggerContext factory = (LoggerContext) LoggerFactory.getILoggerFactory();
final Logger root = factory.getLogger(Logger.ROOT_LOGGER_NAME);

final InstrumentedAppender metrics = new InstrumentedAppender(registry);
metrics.setContext(root.getLoggerContext());
metrics.start();
root.addAppender(metrics);