How to log within shutdown hooks with Log4j2?

Question

Log4j2 also uses shutdown hooks to end it's services. But of course I want to log throughout the whole lifecycle of my application - shutdown included. With Log4j this was no problem. Now it seems to be impossible. Logging shuts down, while my application is still working on it. Has anyone some hope for me?

Best regards Martin

Answer 1

As of 2.0-beta9 this is now configurable in xml

<configuration ... shutdownHook="disable">

Considering its now disabled, I guess I need to manually shutdown the logging system at the end of my shutdown hook. However I couldn't find a means thorough the external interface, only in the internal api

import org.apache.logging.log4j.LogManager;
import org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.Configurator;
import org.apache.logging.log4j.core.LoggerContext;
...

public static void main(String[] args) {
    final AnnotationConfigApplicationContext springContext = new AnnotationConfigApplicationContext(AppConfig.class)

    Runtime.getRuntime().addShutdownHook(new Thread() {
        public void run() {
            //shutdown application
            LOG.info("Shutting down spring context");
            springContext.close();

            //shutdown log4j2
            if( LogManager.getContext() instanceof LoggerContext ) {
                logger.info("Shutting down log4j2");
                Configurator.shutdown((LoggerContext)LogManager.getContext());
            } else
                logger.warn("Unable to shutdown log4j2");
        }
    });

    //more application initialization
}

Update:

There is LogManager.shutdown() method since log4j version 2.6