Logging to an individual log file for each individual thread

Question

I have a service application that on startup reads an XML file and starts a thread for each entry in the XML file. Each thread creates an instance of a worker class which re

Answer 1

I think I have worked out the issue. The steps follow:

• Create an an individual ILoggerRepository object (loggerRepository in this example) on each thread.
• Set the ThreadContexts property for the log file name.
• Use the XmlConfiguratior to configure the repository.
• Use the LogManager to Get the named logger (in the XML configuration file) using the named LoggerRepository for that thread.

In return I get a new configured logger pointing to the respective file for that thread.

The XML configuration is the same as it was originally and shown here for completeness:

The code to create the loggers is below. Each time this code is run it is run in its own thread.

ILoggerRepository loggerRepository = LogManager.CreateRepository(logFileName + "Repository");
ThreadContext.Properties["LogName"] = logFileName;
log4net.Config.XmlConfigurator.Configure(loggerRepository);
ILog logger = LogManager.GetLogger(logFileName + "Repository", "ProductionLogger");

This seems to work with no issues so far. I will be moving forward with this solution for the moment but I will update this post if I find out anything else.