Spring Boot: How can I set the logging level with

Question

This is very simple question, but I cannot find information.
(Maybe my knowledge about Java frameworks is severely lacking)

How can I set the logging level with application.properties?
And logging file location, etc?

Answer 1

You can do that using your application.properties.

logging.level.=ERROR -> Sets the root logging level to error
...
logging.level.=DEBUG -> Sets the root logging level to DEBUG

logging.file=${java.io.tmpdir}/myapp.log -> Sets the absolute log file path to TMPDIR/myapp.log

A sane default set of application.properties regarding logging using profiles would be: application.properties:

spring.application.name=<your app name here>
logging.level.=ERROR
logging.file=${java.io.tmpdir}/${spring.application.name}.log

application-dev.properties:

logging.level.=DEBUG
logging.file=

When you develop inside your favourite IDE you just add a -Dspring.profiles.active=dev as VM argument to the run/debug configuration of your app.

This will give you error only logging in production and debug logging during development WITHOUT writing the output to a log file. This will improve the performance during development ( and save SSD drives some hours of operation ;) ).

Answer 2

If you want to set more detail, please add a log config file name "logback.xml" or "logback-spring.xml".

in your application.properties file, input like this:

logging.config: classpath:logback-spring.xml

in the loback-spring.xml, input like this:

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
    <configuration>
        <include resource="org/springframework/boot/logging/logback/base.xml"/>

        <appender name="ROOT_APPENDER" class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.RollingFileAppender">

            <filter class="ch.qos.logback.classic.filter.LevelFilter">
                <level>INFO</level>
                <onMatch>ACCEPT</onMatch>
                <onMismatch>DENY</onMismatch>
            </filter>

            <file>sys.log</file>

            <rollingPolicy class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.TimeBasedRollingPolicy">


                <fileNamePattern>${LOG_DIR}/${SYSTEM_NAME}/system.%d{yyyy-MM-dd}.%i.log</fileNamePattern>

                <timeBasedFileNamingAndTriggeringPolicy class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.SizeAndTimeBasedFNATP">
                    <maxFileSize>500MB</maxFileSize>
                </timeBasedFileNamingAndTriggeringPolicy>
            </rollingPolicy>

            <encoder>
                <pattern>%-20(%d{yyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%X{requestId}]) %-5level - %logger{80} - %msg%n
                </pattern>
            </encoder>
        </appender>


        <appender name="BUSINESS_APPENDER" class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.RollingFileAppender">
            <filter class="ch.qos.logback.classic.filter.LevelFilter">
                <level>TRACE</level>
                <onMatch>ACCEPT</onMatch>
                <onMismatch>DENY</onMismatch>
            </filter>

            <file>business.log</file>

            <rollingPolicy class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.TimeBasedRollingPolicy">

                <fileNamePattern>${LOG_DIR}/${SYSTEM_NAME}/business.%d{yyyy-MM-dd}.%i.log</fileNamePattern>

                <timeBasedFileNamingAndTriggeringPolicy class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.SizeAndTimeBasedFNATP">
                    <maxFileSize>500MB</maxFileSize>
                </timeBasedFileNamingAndTriggeringPolicy>
            </rollingPolicy>

            <encoder>
                <pattern>%-20(%d{yyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%X{requestId}]) %-5level - %logger{80} - %msg%n
                </pattern>
            </encoder>
        </appender>


        <logger name="{project-package-name}" level="TRACE">
            <appender-ref ref="BUSINESS_APPENDER" />
        </logger>

        <root level="INFO">
            <appender-ref ref="ROOT_APPENDER" />
        </root>

    </configuration>

Answer 3

Suppose your application has package name as com.company.myproject. Then you can set the logging level for classes inside your project as given below in application.properties files

logging.level.com.company.myproject = DEBUG

logging.level.org.springframework.web = DEBUG and logging.level.org.hibernate = DEBUG will set logging level for classes of Spring framework web and Hibernate only.

For setting the logging file location use

logging.file = /home/ubuntu/myproject.log

Answer 4

If you are on Spring Boot then you can directly add following properties in application.properties file to set logging level, customize logging pattern and to store logs in the external file.

These are different logging levels and its order from minimum << maximum.

OFF << FATAL << ERROR << WARN << INFO << DEBUG << TRACE << ALL

# To set logs level as per your need.
logging.level.org.springframework = debug
logging.level.tech.hardik = trace

# To store logs to external file
# Here use strictly forward "/" slash for both Windows, Linux or any other os, otherwise, its won't work.      
logging.file=D:/spring_app_log_file.log

# To customize logging pattern.
logging.pattern.file= "%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss} - %msg%n"

Please pass through this link to customize your log more vividly.

https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/html/boot-features-logging.html