Tip: Add Log4j2 in a Spring Boot Application

Learn more about the two-step process of adding Log4j2 in a Spring Boot application.

by Octavia Anghel

Aug 26, 2019

Adding Log4j2 in a Spring Boot application can be done in two steps. For Maven, in pom.xml, exclude Spring Boot's default logging:

org.springframework.boot
   spring-boot-starter
   
      
         org.springframework.boot
         spring-boot-starter-logging

Further, add Log4j2 dependency:

org.springframework.boot
   spring-boot-starter-log4j2

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Octavia Andreea Anghel is a senior PHP developer currently working as a primary trainer for programming teams that participate at national and international software-development contests. She consults on developing educational projects at a national level. She is a coauthor of the book "XML Technologies--XML in Java" (Albastra, ISBN 978-973-650-210-1), for which she wrote the XML portions. In addition to PHP and XML, she's interested in software architecture, web services, UML, and high-performance unit tests.