TIBCO BW ECS Logging Support

TIBCO BW ECS Logging Support is becoming one demanded feature based on the increased usage of the Elastic Common Schema for the log aggregation solution based on the Elastic stack (previously known as ELK stack)

We have already commented a lot about the importance of log aggregation solutions and their benefits, especially when discussing container architecture. Because of that, today, we will focus on how we can adapt our BW applications to support this new logging format.

Because the first thing that we need to know is the following statement: Yes, this can be done. And it can be done non-dependant on your deployment model. So, the solution provided here works for both on-premises solutions as well as container deployments using BWCE.

TIBCO BW Logging Background

TIBCO BusinessWorks (container or not) relies on its logging capabilities in the logback library, and this library is configured using a file named logback.xml that could have the configuration that you need, as you can see in the picture below:

Logback is a well-known library for Java-based developments and has an architecture based on a core…