From 36060f08d7ac3c5a7bfe10663a7b233875f36fbb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: dheeraj12347 <dheerajbansal387@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2026 07:48:35 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Add timestamps to stderr console logs for agent, management
 and API server

---
 agent/conf/log4j-cloud.xml.in  | 22 ++++++++++++++++--
 client/conf/log4j-cloud.xml.in | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 server/conf/log4j-cloud.xml.in | 34 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 3 files changed, 93 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/agent/conf/log4j-cloud.xml.in b/agent/conf/log4j-cloud.xml.in
index efb58db4ace..dd3e69e34bb 100644
--- a/agent/conf/log4j-cloud.xml.in
+++ b/agent/conf/log4j-cloud.xml.in
@@ -8,8 +8,10 @@ to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
 "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
 with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
 
+
   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 
+
 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
 software distributed under the License is distributed on an
 "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
@@ -20,10 +22,12 @@ under the License.
 <Configuration monitorInterval="60">
    <Appenders>
 
+
       <!-- ================================= -->
       <!-- Preserve messages in a local file -->
       <!-- ================================= -->
 
+
       <!-- A time/date based rolling appender -->
       <RollingFile name="FILE" append="true" fileName="@AGENTLOG@" filePattern="@AGENTLOG@.%d{yyyy-MM-dd}.gz">
          <ThresholdFilter level="INFO" onMatch="ACCEPT" onMismatch="DENY"/>
@@ -33,22 +37,32 @@ under the License.
          <PatternLayout pattern="%d{DEFAULT} %-5p [%c{3}] (%t:%x) (logid:%X{logcontextid}) %m%ex%n"/>
       </RollingFile>
 
+
       <!-- ============================== -->
       <!-- Append messages to the console -->
       <!-- ============================== -->
 
+
       <Console name="CONSOLE" target="SYSTEM_OUT">
-          <ThresholdFilter level="OFF" onMatch="ACCEPT" onMismatch="DENY"/>
-          <PatternLayout pattern="%d{DEFAULT} %-5p [%c{3}] (%t:%x) (logid:%X{logcontextid}) %m%ex%n"/>
+         <ThresholdFilter level="ERROR" onMatch="DENY" onMismatch="ACCEPT"/>
+         <PatternLayout pattern="%d{DEFAULT} %-5p [%c{3}] (%t:%x) (logid:%X{logcontextid}) %m%ex%n"/>
+      </Console>
+
+      <Console name="CONSOLE_ERR" target="SYSTEM_ERR">
+         <ThresholdFilter level="ERROR" onMatch="ACCEPT" onMismatch="DENY"/>
+         <PatternLayout pattern="%d{DEFAULT} %-5p [%c{3}] (%t:%x) (logid:%X{logcontextid}) %m%ex%n"/>
       </Console>
    </Appenders>
 
+
    <Loggers>
 
+
       <!-- ================ -->
       <!-- Limit categories -->
       <!-- ================ -->
 
+
       <Logger name="com.cloud" level="INFO"/>
       <Logger name="org.apache" level="INFO"/>
       <Logger name="org" level="INFO"/>
@@ -57,14 +71,18 @@ under the License.
       <Logger name="httpclient.wire" level="INFO"/>
       <Logger name="org.apache.http.wire" level="INFO"/>
 
+
       <!-- ======================= -->
       <!-- Setup the Root category -->
       <!-- ======================= -->
 
+
       <Root level="INFO">
          <AppenderRef ref="CONSOLE"/>
+         <AppenderRef ref="CONSOLE_ERR"/>
          <AppenderRef ref="FILE"/>
       </Root>
 
+
    </Loggers>
 </Configuration>
diff --git a/client/conf/log4j-cloud.xml.in b/client/conf/log4j-cloud.xml.in
index 9a1ec6947bd..2f484c00b6a 100755
--- a/client/conf/log4j-cloud.xml.in
+++ b/client/conf/log4j-cloud.xml.in
@@ -8,8 +8,10 @@ to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
 "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
 with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
 
+
   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 
+
 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
 software distributed under the License is distributed on an
 "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
@@ -20,14 +22,17 @@ under the License.
 <Configuration monitorInterval="60" packages="org.apache.cloudstack.alert.snmp,org.apache.cloudstack.syslog">
    <Appenders>
 
+
       <properties>
         <property name="filters">net.sf.cglib.proxy</property>
       </properties>
 
+
       <!-- ================================= -->
       <!-- Preserve messages in a local file -->
       <!-- ================================= -->
 
+
       <!-- A regular appender -->
       <RollingFile name="FILE" append="true" fileName="@MSLOG@" filePattern="@MSLOG@.%d{yyyy-MM-dd}.gz">
          <ThresholdFilter level="TRACE" onMatch="ACCEPT" onMismatch="DENY"/>
@@ -37,6 +42,7 @@ under the License.
          <PatternLayout pattern="%d{DEFAULT} %-5p [%c{1.}] (%t:%x) (logid:%X{logcontextid}) %m%ex{filters(${filters})}%n"/>
       </RollingFile>
 
+
       <RollingFile name="APISERVER" append="true" fileName="@APISERVERLOG@" filePattern="@APISERVERLOG@.%d{yyyy-MM-dd}.gz">
          <ThresholdFilter level="DEBUG" onMatch="ACCEPT" onMismatch="DENY"/>
          <Policies>
@@ -45,89 +51,122 @@ under the License.
          <PatternLayout pattern="%d{DEFAULT} %-5p [%c{1.}] (%t:%x) (logid:%X{logcontextid}) %m%ex{filters(${filters})}%n"/>
       </RollingFile>
 
+
       <!-- ============================== -->
       <!-- Append warnings+ to the syslog if it is listening on UDP port -->
       <!-- ============================== -->
 
+
       <Syslog name="SYSLOG" host="localhost" facility="LOCAL6">
          <ThresholdFilter level="WARN" onMatch="ACCEPT" onMismatch="DENY"/>
          <PatternLayout pattern="%d{DEFAULT} %-5p [%c{1.}] (%t:%x) (logid:%X{logcontextid}) %m%ex{filters(${filters})}%n"/>
       </Syslog>
 
+
       <!-- ============================== -->
       <!-- Append alerts to the syslog if it is configured -->
       <!-- ============================== -->
 
+
       <AlertSyslogAppender name="ALERTSYSLOG" syslogHosts="" facility="LOCAL6">
          <ThresholdFilter level="WARN" onMatch="ACCEPT" onMismatch="DENY"/>
          <PatternLayout pattern="%d{DEFAULT} %-5p [%c{1.}] (%t:%x) (logid:%X{logcontextid}) %m%ex{filters(${filters})}%n"/>
       </AlertSyslogAppender>
 
+
       <!-- ============================== -->
       <!-- Append messages to the console -->
       <!-- ============================== -->
 
+
       <Console name="CONSOLE" target="SYSTEM_OUT">
-         <ThresholdFilter level="OFF" onMatch="ACCEPT" onMismatch="DENY"/>
+         <ThresholdFilter level="ERROR" onMatch="DENY" onMismatch="ACCEPT"/>
          <PatternLayout pattern="%d{DEFAULT} %-5p [%c{1.}] (%t:%x) (logid:%X{logcontextid}) %m%ex{filters(${filters})}%n"/>
       </Console>
 
+      <Console name="CONSOLE_ERR" target="SYSTEM_ERR">
+         <ThresholdFilter level="ERROR" onMatch="ACCEPT" onMismatch="DENY"/>
+         <PatternLayout pattern="%d{DEFAULT} %-5p [%c{1.}] (%t:%x) (logid:%X{logcontextid}) %m%ex{filters(${filters})}%n"/>
+      </Console>
+
+
       <!-- ============================== -->
       <!-- send alert warnings+ as the SNMP trap if it is configured! -->
       <!-- ============================== -->
 
+
       <SnmpTrapAppender name="SNMP" SnmpManagerIpAddresses="" SnmpManagerPorts="" SnmpManagerCommunities="">
                <ThresholdFilter level="WARN" onMatch="ACCEPT" onMismatch="DENY"/>
       </SnmpTrapAppender>
    </Appenders>
 
+
    <Loggers>
 
+
       <Logger name="com.cloud" level="DEBUG"/>
 
+
       <Logger name="org.apache.cloudstack" level="DEBUG"/>
 
+
       <Logger name="com.cloud.utils.nio" level="INFO"/>
 
+
       <Logger name="org.apache" level="INFO"/>
 
+
       <Logger name="org.apache.cloudstack.api.command" level="DEBUG"/>
 
+
       <Logger name="org" level="INFO"/>
 
+
       <Logger name="org.springframework" level="WARN"/>
 
+
       <Logger name="org.apache.cloudstack.spring.module.context.ResourceApplicationContext" level="WARN"/>
 
+
       <Logger name="net" level="INFO"/>
 
+
       <Logger name="apiserver.com.cloud"  level="DEBUG"/>
 
+
       <Logger name="apiserver.com.cloud" level="DEBUG" additivity="false">
          <AppenderRef ref="APISERVER"/>
       </Logger>
 
+
       <Logger name="com.amazonaws" level="INFO"/>
 
+
       <Logger name="httpclient.wire" level="INFO"/>
 
+
       <Logger name="org.apache.cloudstack.alert" additivity="false" level="WARN">
          <AppenderRef ref="SYSLOG"/>
          <AppenderRef ref="CONSOLE"/>
+         <AppenderRef ref="CONSOLE_ERR"/>
          <AppenderRef ref="FILE"/>
          <AppenderRef ref="SNMP"/>
          <AppenderRef ref="ALERTSYSLOG"/>
       </Logger>
 
+
       <!-- ======================= -->
       <!-- Setup the Root category -->
       <!-- ======================= -->
 
+
       <Root level="INFO">
          <AppenderRef ref="SYSLOG"/>
          <AppenderRef ref="CONSOLE"/>
+         <AppenderRef ref="CONSOLE_ERR"/>
          <AppenderRef ref="FILE"/>
       </Root>
 
+
    </Loggers>
 </Configuration>
diff --git a/server/conf/log4j-cloud.xml.in b/server/conf/log4j-cloud.xml.in
index c8dd4fa3ce1..82614f42d12 100755
--- a/server/conf/log4j-cloud.xml.in
+++ b/server/conf/log4j-cloud.xml.in
@@ -8,8 +8,10 @@ to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
 "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
 with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
 
+
   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 
+
 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
 software distributed under the License is distributed on an
 "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
@@ -20,10 +22,12 @@ under the License.
 <Configuration monitorInterval="60">
    <Appenders>
 
+
       <!-- ================================= -->
       <!-- Preserve messages in a local file -->
       <!-- ================================= -->
 
+
       <!-- A regular appender -->
       <RollingFile name="FILE" append="true" fileName="@MSLOG@" filePattern="@MSLOG@.%d{yyyy-MM-dd}.gz">
          <ThresholdFilter level="TRACE" onMatch="ACCEPT" onMismatch="DENY"/>
@@ -33,6 +37,7 @@ under the License.
          <PatternLayout pattern="%d{DEFAULT} %-5p [%c{1.}] (%t:%x) %m%ex%n"/>
       </RollingFile>
 
+
       <RollingFile name="INFO-FILE" append="true" fileName="/var/log/cloudstack/management/management-server-info.log" filePattern="/var/log/cloudstack/management/management-server-info.log.%d{yyyy-MM-dd}.gz">
          <ThresholdFilter level="INFO" onMatch="ACCEPT" onMismatch="DENY"/>
          <Policies>
@@ -41,6 +46,7 @@ under the License.
          <PatternLayout pattern="%d{DEFAULT} %-5p [%c{1.}] (%t:%x) (logid:%X{logcontextid}) %m%ex%n"/>
       </RollingFile>
 
+
       <RollingFile name="APISERVER" append="true" fileName="@APISERVERLOG@" filePattern="@APISERVERLOG@.%d{yyyy-MM-dd}.gz">
          <ThresholdFilter level="DEBUG" onMatch="ACCEPT" onMismatch="DENY"/>
          <Policies>
@@ -49,69 +55,95 @@ under the License.
          <PatternLayout pattern="%d{DEFAULT} %-5p [%c{1.}] (%t:%x) %m%ex%n"/>
       </RollingFile>
 
+
       <!-- ============================== -->
       <!-- Append warnings+ to the syslog if it is listening on UDP port -->
       <!-- ============================== -->
 
+
       <Syslog name="SYSLOG" host="localhost" facility="LOCAL6">
          <ThresholdFilter level="WARN" onMatch="ACCEPT" onMismatch="DENY"/>
          <PatternLayout pattern="%-5p [%c{1.}] (%t:%x) %m%ex%n"/>
       </Syslog>
 
+
       <!-- ============================== -->
       <!-- Append messages to the console -->
       <!-- ============================== -->
 
+
       <Console name="CONSOLE" target="SYSTEM_OUT">
-         <ThresholdFilter level="OFF" onMatch="ACCEPT" onMismatch="DENY"/>
+         <ThresholdFilter level="ERROR" onMatch="DENY" onMismatch="ACCEPT"/>
+         <PatternLayout pattern="%d{DEFAULT} %-5p [%c{1.}] (%t:%x) %m%ex%n"/>
+      </Console>
+
+      <Console name="CONSOLE_ERR" target="SYSTEM_ERR">
+         <ThresholdFilter level="ERROR" onMatch="ACCEPT" onMismatch="DENY"/>
          <PatternLayout pattern="%d{DEFAULT} %-5p [%c{1.}] (%t:%x) %m%ex%n"/>
       </Console>
    </Appenders>
 
+
    <Loggers>
 
+
       <Logger name="com.cloud" level="DEBUG"/>
 
+
       <Logger name="org.apache.cloudstack" level="DEBUG"/>
 
+
       <Logger name="org.apache" level="INFO"/>
 
+
       <Logger name="org" level="INFO"/>
 
+
       <Logger name="net" level="INFO"/>
 
+
       <Logger name="apiserver.com.cloud" level="DEBUG"/>
 
+
       <Logger name="apiserver.com.cloud" level="DEBUG" additivity="false">
          <AppenderRef ref="APISERVER"/>
       </Logger>
 
+
       <Logger name="com.amazonaws" level="INFO"/>
 
+
       <Logger name="httpclient.wire" level="INFO"/>
 
+
       <!-- ============================== -->
       <!-- Add or remove these logger for SNMP, this logger is for SNMP alerts plugin -->
       <!-- ============================== -->
 
+
       <Logger name="org.apache.cloudstack.alerts" additivity="false" level="WARN">
          <AppenderRef ref="SYSLOG"/>
          <AppenderRef ref="CONSOLE"/>
+         <AppenderRef ref="CONSOLE_ERR"/>
          <AppenderRef ref="FILE"/>
          <AppenderRef ref="SNMP"/>
          <AppenderRef ref="ALERTSYSLOG"/>
       </Logger>
 
+
       <!-- ======================= -->
       <!-- Setup the Root category -->
       <!-- ======================= -->
 
+
       <Root level="INFO">
          <AppenderRef ref="SYSLOG"/>
          <AppenderRef ref="CONSOLE"/>
+         <AppenderRef ref="CONSOLE_ERR"/>
          <AppenderRef ref="FILE"/>
          <AppenderRef ref="INFO-FILE"/>
       </Root>
 
+
    </Loggers>
 </Configuration>