[DOCS] document that we support loading multiple logging conf files

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javanna 2014-11-19 11:24:23 +01:00 committed by Luca Cavanna
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@ -312,12 +312,14 @@ log4j configuration by using http://www.yaml.org/[YAML] to configure it,
and the logging configuration file is `config/logging.yml`. The
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON[JSON] and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.properties[properties] formats are also
supported. The logger section contains the java packages and their
corresponding log level, where it is possible to omit the `org.elasticsearch`
prefix. The appender section contains the destinations for the logs.
Extensive information on how to customize logging and all the supported
appenders can be found on the
http://logging.apache.org/log4j/1.2/manual.html[log4j documentation].
supported. Multiple configuration files can be loaded, in which case they will
get merged, as long as they start with the `logging.` prefix and end with one
of the supported suffixes (either `.yml`, `.yaml`, `.json` or `.properties`).
The logger section contains the java packages and their corresponding log
level, where it is possible to omit the `org.elasticsearch` prefix. The
appender section contains the destinations for the logs. Extensive information
on how to customize logging and all the supported appenders can be found on
the http://logging.apache.org/log4j/1.2/manual.html[log4j documentation].
coming[1.5.0] Additional Appenders and other logging classes provided by
http://logging.apache.org/log4j/extras/[log4j-extras] are also available,