I am trying to use log4j2 instead of logback in my spring application but it keep throwing error. The pom file looks like
<parent>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
<version>1.5.7.RELEASE</version>
<relativePath />
</parent>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter</artifactId>
<exclusions>
<exclusion>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-logging</artifactId>
</exclusion>
</exclusions>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-log4j2</artifactId>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
The log4j2 xml files looks like
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Configuration monitorInterval="60">
<Properties>
<Property name="path">logs</Property>
</Properties>
<Appenders>
<Console name="Console-Appender" target="SYSTEM_OUT">
<PatternLayout>
<pattern>
[%-5level] %d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%t] %c{1} - %msg%n
</pattern>>
</PatternLayout>
</Console>
<File name="App-Appender" fileName="${path}/app_log.log" >
<PatternLayout>
<pattern>
[%-5level] %d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%t] %c{1} - %msg%n
</pattern>
</PatternLayout>
</File>
<File name="SpringBoot-Appender" fileName="${path}/springboot_log.log" >
<PatternLayout>
<pattern>
[%-5level] %d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%t] %c{1} - %msg%n
</pattern>
</PatternLayout>
</File>
</Appenders>
<Loggers>
<Logger name="master.dt" level="info" additivity="false">
<AppenderRef ref="SpringBoot-Appender"/>
<AppenderRef ref="Console-Appender"/>
</Logger>
<Logger name="master.dt" level="info" additivity="false">
<AppenderRef ref="App-Appender"/>
<AppenderRef ref="Console-Appender"/>
</Logger>
<Root>
<AppenderRef ref="Console-Appender"/>
</Root>
</Loggers>
</Configuration>
however when i run the spring boot app it throws an error
SLF4J: Class path contains multiple SLF4J bindings.
SLF4J: Found binding in [jar:file:/Users/asd.asd/.m2/repository/org/apache/logging/log4j/log4j-slf4j-impl/2.6.2/log4j-slf4j-impl-2.6.2.jar!/org/slf4j/impl/StaticLoggerBinder.class]
SLF4J: Found binding in [jar:file:/Users/asd.asd/.m2/repository/ch/qos/logback/logback-classic/1.1.7/logback-classic-1.1.7.jar!/org/slf4j/impl/StaticLoggerBinder.class]
SLF4J: See http://www.slf4j.org/codes.html#multiple_bindings for an explanation.
SLF4J: Actual binding is of type [org.apache.logging.slf4j.Log4jLoggerFactory]
[WARNING]
java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
at org.springframework.boot.maven.AbstractRunMojo$LaunchRunner.run(AbstractRunMojo.java:483)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: LoggerFactory is not a Logback LoggerContext but Logback is on the classpath. Either remove Logback or the competing implementation (class org.apache.logging.slf4j.Log4jLoggerFactory loaded from file:/Users/karan.shah/.m2/repository/org/apache/logging/log4j/log4j-slf4j-impl/2.6.2/log4j-slf4j-impl-2.6.2.jar). If you are using WebLogic you will need to add 'org.slf4j' to prefer-application-packages in WEB-INF/weblogic.xml Object of class [org.apache.logging.slf4j.Log4jLoggerFactory] must be an instance of class ch.qos.logback.classic.LoggerContext
at org.springframework.util.Assert.isInstanceOf(Assert.java:346)
at org.springframework.boot.logging.logback.LogbackLoggingSystem.getLoggerContext(LogbackLoggingSystem.java:221)
at org.springframework.boot.logging.logback.LogbackLoggingSystem.getLogger(LogbackLoggingSystem.java:213)
at org.springframework.boot.logging.logback.LogbackLoggingSystem.beforeInitialize(LogbackLoggingSystem.java:98)
at org.springframework.boot.logging.LoggingApplicationListener.onApplicationStartedEvent(LoggingApplicationListener.java:222)
I followed multiple blog but none of them are working. What is the correct way to get log4j2 work?
Spring Boot also supports either Log4j or Log4j 2 for logging configuration, but only if one of them is on the classpath. If you are using the starter poms for assembling dependencies that means you have to exclude Logback and then include your chosen version of Log4j instead.
Yes! While Spring Boot uses the logback framework by default, it is often configured to use an alternate logging implementation like Log4J2. If you're Spring Boot app is configured to use the Log4J framework, then your application is vulnerable.
Exclude the default spring boot starter logging dependency from spring boot starter web dependency also.
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
<exclusions>
<exclusion>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-logging</artifactId>
</exclusion>
</exclusions>
</dependency>
I faced this issue in Microservice based project which is based on many services. Because of lot of conflicts between log4j, slf4j , apache common logging etc. Hence log files is not creating even sufficient privileged are there. First run command to resolved the jar conflict from dependency tree.
**mvn dependency:tree**
Exclude those jars from spring-boot starter dependencies and other component dependencies.
Following Code is perfectly working for me after lot of struggle.
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
<exclusions>
<exclusion>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-logging</artifactId>
</exclusion>
</exclusions>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-log4j2</artifactId>
</dependency>
****Log4j.xml files:****
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Configuration>
<Appenders>
<Console name="Console" target="SYSTEM_OUT">
<PatternLayout
pattern="%style{%d{ISO8601}}{black} %highlight{%-5level }[%style{%t}{bright,blue}] %style{%C{1.}}{bright,yellow}: %msg%n%throwable" />
</Console>
<RollingFile name="RollingFile"
fileName="./logs/gateway-log4j2.log"
filePattern="./logs/$${date:yyyy-MM}/spring-boot-logger-log4j2-%d{-dd-MMMM-yyyy}-%i.log.gz">
<PatternLayout>
<pattern>%d %p %C{1.} [%t] %m%n</pattern>
</PatternLayout>
<Policies>
<!-- rollover on startup, daily and when the file reaches
10 MegaBytes -->
<OnStartupTriggeringPolicy />
<SizeBasedTriggeringPolicy
size="10 MB" />
<TimeBasedTriggeringPolicy />
</Policies>
</RollingFile>
</Appenders>
<Loggers>
<!-- LOG everything at INFO level -->
<Root level="info">
<AppenderRef ref="Console" />
<AppenderRef ref="RollingFile" />
</Root>
<!-- LOG "com.mytest.project*" at TRACE level -->
<Logger name="com.mytest.project" level="trace"></Logger>
</Loggers>
</Configuration>
Try it. It perfectly working for me.
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