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[[example-logging-logback-sifting]]
=== Example: MDC Based Sifting of Logs with Logback

This page describes how to create log files at the server level and name them based on an arbitrary context. 
This can be done with SLF4J + Logback + Jetty Webapp Logging in the mix. 
Find example projects for this feature at github:

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https://github.com/jetty-project/jetty-and-logback-example
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.GitHub Example Project
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|Modules |Description
|/jetty-distro-with-logback-basic/ |Configures the jetty distribution with logback enabled at the server level with an example logback configuration.

|/jetty-distro-with-logback-sifting/ |Configures the jetty distribution with logback, centralized webapp logging, an MDC handler, and a sample logback configuration that performs sifting based on the incoming Host header on the requests.

|/jetty-slf4j-mdc-handler/ |Provides the SLF4J MDC key/value pairs that Jetty needs to perform the sample sifting.

|/jetty-slf4j-test-webapp/ |A sample webapp+servlet that accepts arbitrary values on a form POST and logs them via SLF4J, so that you can see the results of this example.
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