Log4J: Spring Boot

Using Log4J with Spring Boot

See also: http://www.springboottutorial.com/logging-with-spring-boot-logback-slf4j-and-log4j

Log4J is short for Apache Logging For Java

In a Spring Boot application, inside any class where you want to do logging, you need these two import statements:

import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

And then you need to put this line of code inside the class. Substitute the actual name of the class followed by .class inside the parameter to LoggerFactory.getLogger. It is a good practice to put this first in the class, so that if the class name changes, you remember to change the name of the class on the next line.

public class ThisIsTheClassName {
    private Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(ThisIsTheClassName.class);
...

Then, anytime you want logging information to appear, you can use statements such as these:

 logger.trace("A TRACE Message");
 logger.debug("A DEBUG Message");
 logger.info("An INFO Message... profile.getUsername()="+profile.getUsername());

To set the level of debugging, you can set the value in one of these ways:

  1. In the file src/main/resources/application.properties like this: 
    logging.level.org.pac4j.springframework.web=DEBUG
logging.level.org.pac4j.core.engine=DEBUG
logging.level.path.to.your.class=INFO
  2. If you have a way of setting up the environment variable SPRING_APPLICATION_JSON, you can set the variables there also.

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