Optimizing Log4j2 Asynchronous Logging: Configuration, Diagnosis, and Load‑Testing
This article presents a detailed case study of a severe service outage caused by Log4j2 asynchronous logging bottlenecks, explains step‑by‑step diagnostics of JVM, disk, and RingBuffer metrics, and demonstrates how adjusting log4j2.asyncQueueFullPolicy and log4j2.discardThreshold dramatically improves recovery time during load testing.