Log4j vs. Winston: Logging Libraries in Java and JavaScript

Logging is a crucial aspect of application development, enabling developers to monitor, debug, and audit software effectively. Two widely-used logging…

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The Log4Shell vulnerability and how to fix it

Since Friday, the Java and general IT world has been in a bit of turmoil after a zero-day vulnerability in…

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Log4Shell: Apache Log4j Vulnerability

Apache Log4j is a popular logging library used across the JVM ecosystem. On Dec 10 2021, a high severity vulnerability was…

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Log4j Bug – Slows down your app

Recently we were troubleshooting a popular SaaS application. This application was slowing down intermittently. To recover from the problem, the…

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Tales from the Field: Migrating from Log4J to Log4J2

Discover faster, more efficient performance monitoring with an enterprise APM product learning from your apps. Take the AppDynamics APM Guided…

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Logging in Style: log4j 2, Contextuality, Auto-cleanup… All with No Strings Attached!

Logging—maintaining a temporal trace of operations—is vital for any mission-critical system, no matter how big or small. Same was the…

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Log4j 2.x XSD is Not Fully Descriptive

In the blog post JAXB and Log4j XML Configuration Files, I discussed “nuances and subtleties associated with using JAXB to…

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JAXB and Log4j XML Configuration Files

Both Log4j 1.x and Log4j 2.x support use of XML files to specify logging configuration. This post looks into some…

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Simplify your logging with tinylog 1.0

With a size of only 75 KB, tinylog is a lightweight alternative to the widespread classical logging frameworks Log4j and…

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