java 多线程日志,跨多个线程的Java日志记录

We have a system that uses threading so that it can concurrently handle different bits of functionality in parallel. We would like to find a way to tie all log entries for a particular "transaction" together. Normally, one might use 'threadName' to gather these together, but clearly that fails in a multithreaded situation.

Short of passing a 'transaction key' down through every method call, I can't see a way to tie these together. And passing a key into every single method is just ugly.

Also, we're kind of tied to Java logging, as our system is built on a modified version of it. So, I would be interested in other platforms for examples of what we might try, but switching platforms is highly unlikely.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks,

Peter

EDIT: Unfortunately, I don't have control over the creation of the threads as that's all handled by a workflow package. Otherwise, the idea of caching the ID once for each thread (on ThreadLocal maybe?) then setting that on the new threads as they are created is a good idea. I may try that anyway.

解决方案

However you mentioned that your transaction spans more than one thread, take a look at how log4j cope with binding additional information to current thread with MDC and NDC classes. It uses ThreadLocal as you were advised before, but interesting thing is how log4j injects data into log messages.

//In the code:

MDC.put("RemoteAddress", req.getRemoteAddr());

//In the configuration file, add the following:

%X{RemoteAddress}

Details: