Recently a respected member of the Apache community tried Log4j 2 and wrote on Twitter @TheASF #log4j2 rocks big times! Performance is close to insane ^^ http://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/ It happened shortly after Remko Popma contributed something which is now called the “AsyncLoggers”. Some of you might know Log4j 2 has AsyncAppenders already. They are similar like the ones you can find in Log