Can the IntelliJ IDEA run tab have color?

Question

I am running a spring boot application inside IntelliJ IDEA and noticed a difference if I run it via the run tab (run menu) and via manual command from the terminal tab.

If I run it through a maven run target (play button), I do not see any colors inside the 'run' tab. If I run it via 'mvn spring-boot:run from the 'terminal' tab I see the pretty color highlights. The maven run configuration also runs the same command, spring-boot:run.

Application started from the play button/run configuration (run tab): Application started from the terminal tab via mvn spring-boot:run (terminal tab):

Answer 1

Inside build.gradle, add the following block to get colorized log output when running your Spring Boot app inside IntelliJ IDEA via gradle bootRun.

bootRun {
    jvmArgs = ["-Dspring.output.ansi.enabled=ALWAYS"]
}