Is there a way to remove a Logger once it has been added? Say via:
LogManager.GetLogger("loggerName")
In my research, it would appear it is not possible. The closest I have found is the ability to call the Clear hierarchy method. This will indeed clear out the existing loggers but I would like to selectively remove them, not to mention this likely isn't the safest thing to be doing.
For some background, I am logging one file per task where there could be potentially thousands of concurrent tasks and hundreds of thousands of tasks per application lifetime. One approach is to create a Logger for each task and then remove it once the task has completed. Without the ability to selectively remove a Logger though, memory will get chewed up by the retired instances.
Of course, there are alternative designs that would work. The problem could be addressed by adding/removing Appenders and Filters as necessary to a given Logger. Also, a pool of Loggers and Appenders could be created and then configured per task.
It obviously isn't a show stopper if there is no way to remove a specific logger once it is added. I'm just curious if there is a way to delete a Logger that I may have missed?
Wrapping this up since it has been open a long time. I haven't found a way to remove a logger by itself and nothing I've seen in the documentation suggests it is possible either. The solution that worked for me to share a pool of loggers that would only grow to the max amount of concurrent tasks. Each task could take a logger from the pool with an appender added specific to that task. On task completion, the appender is removed and the logger returned to the pool.