Logback JsonLayout printing all logs on the same line

Question

I am using JsonLayout with Spring Boot to log messages in JSON format. I only want the log messages to be logged to the console and not to a log file.

I notice that the JSON logs are logged continuously on the same line. On production this would be alright, since we would be shipping the logs to a log aggregator. But this becomes a bit difficult to analyze on local development.

Logs

{"timestamp":"2016-11-13 23:06:17.727","level":"INFO","thread":"qtp745835029-19","logger":"com.test.controller.TestController","message":"Info log:: printme 1","context":"default"}{"timestamp":"2016-11-13 23:06:17.727","level":"DEBUG","thread":"qtp745835029-19","logger":"com.test.controller.TestController","message":"Debug log:: printme","context":"default"}{"timestamp":"2016-11-13 23:06:17.727","level":"WARN","thread":"qtp745835029-19","logger":"com.test.controller.TestController","message":"Warn log:: printme","context":"default"}{"timestamp":"2016-11-13 23:06:17.727","level":"ERROR","thread":"qtp745835029-19","logger":"com.test.controller.TestController","message":"Error log:: printme","context":"default"} 

Below is the logback configuration
logback-spring.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <configuration>     <include resource="org/springframework/boot/logging/logback/base.xml" />     <appender name="consoleAppender" class="ch.qos.logback.core.ConsoleAppender">         <layout class="ch.qos.logback.contrib.json.classic.JsonLayout">             <jsonFormatter class="ch.qos.logback.contrib.jackson.JacksonJsonFormatter">                 <prettyPrint>false</prettyPrint>             </jsonFormatter>             <timestampFormat>yyyy-MM-dd' 'HH:mm:ss.SSS</timestampFormat>         </layout>     </appender>     <logger name="jsonLogger" additivity="false" level="DEBUG">         <appender-ref ref="consoleAppender"/>     </logger>     <root level="INFO">         <appender-ref ref="consoleAppender"/>     </root> </configuration> 

Am I missing something in the configuration so that they are logged on separate lines on the console.

Thanks for any help on this.

Answer 1

You need to set appendLineSeparator option to true for ch.qos.logback.contrib.json.classic.JsonLayout. Example of this:

<configuration> <appender name="STDOUT" class="ch.qos.logback.core.ConsoleAppender">     <layout class="ch.qos.logback.contrib.json.classic.JsonLayout">         <jsonFormatter class="ch.qos.logback.contrib.jackson.JacksonJsonFormatter" />         <timestampFormat>yyyy-MM-dd' 'HH:mm:ss.SSS</timestampFormat>         <appendLineSeparator>true</appendLineSeparator>     </layout> </appender>  <root level="debug">     <appender-ref ref="STDOUT" /> </root>