Standalone server classes for consuming log events over a network. Each of the various servers should be used with another Log4j configuration to handle incoming log events. It is recommended to consider using the Flume Appender for highly reliable networked logging.
The Log4j Server components requires the Log4j 2 API and core. This component was introduced in Log4j 2.8.2, before it was part of log4j-core. For more information, see Runtime Dependencies.