Sitecore Custom Logger where each item represents its own log file

Question

There are many articles how to create your own logger and save a log file into a separate folder. I need something else. My items represent the processors. It means I can click the button on the ribbon and run associated process by item id. Here is what I want to get.

1. When process is started, the new log file should be created where file name is \Data\logs[customfolder][itemid][timestamp].txt
2. Even process is finished and I run it again a new log file should be created.

Do you have an idea or solution how to implement it?

Answer 1

As Sitecore logging is just a wrapper on top of log4net, you should create an appender (and maybe logger) in your code (assuming that the "processor" you mention is some custom code). I found this solution on stackoverflow, but didn't test it myself. It is using the log4net api to create a FileAppender and set its properties. After creating the appender, you must add it to the logger you want to use for writing logs.