apache/logging-log4j2
Apache Log4j is a versatile, feature-rich, efficient logging API and backend for Java.
- Stars
- 3.6k
- Forks
- 1.8k
- Language
- Java
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Last commit
- updated Nov 2026
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Maintenance
Pushed within three months of the last stats read (as of Nov 6, 2026).
Licence
Apache-2.0
Tech stack
Primary language: Java. GitHub reports only the dominant language, so this is not the whole stack.
Install
No install command has been verified for this repo. Follow the README rather than a guess.
Quality score
Computed by the discovery import when this entry was added.
- Recent activity×0.30
- 1.00
How recently the default branch was pushed to.
- Adoption×0.20
- 0.76
Stars on a log scale, so adoption counts without dominating.
- Description and topics×0.15
- 1.00
Whether the repo describes itself: description, topics, homepage.
- README present×0.15
- 0.00
Whether the repository has a README at all.
- Licence clarity×0.10
- 1.00
Whether GitHub can resolve the licence to a recognised SPDX id.
- Issue health×0.10
- 0.80
Open issues relative to adoption, as a rough maintenance signal.
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