Log4j usage - how to customize the event ID when logging to Windows Event Log?

Question

I'm adding windows event logging functionality to an existing Java application and I'd like to utilize event ids(our admin is using them already). Is there a way to specify the event ID when logging with NTEventLogAppender?

Answer 1

From my research so far it seems like there's no way to modify the event ID from the default 4096.

Answer 2

Check out log4jna. It's a replacement for log4j NTEventLogAppender. It doesn't do what you want right now, but it's "this close". If you still need this, we can work on implementing it.