External Log4j.properties in not printing logs - spring boot 2.2.1 - spring

Question

Develop a spring boot application in 2.2.1 RELEASE.Everything is working fine except Loging using log4j.properties.
In apoplication.properies, added logging.config as given below
logging.config =${external.config}/log4j.properties.
Pom.xml file,excluded spring-boot-starter-logging and added spring-boot-starter-log4j as given below
<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-log4j2</artifactId>
</dependency>
log4j.properties
log4j.rootLogger=error,Service
# Direct log messages to a log file
log4j.appender.Service=org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender
log4j.appender.Service.File=C:/log/Service.log
log4j.appender.Service.MaxFileSize=1MB
log4j.appender.Service.MaxBackupIndex=1
log4j.appender.Service.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.Service.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss} %-5p %c{1}:%L - [%X{AUDIT_USER}] %m%n
i referred following links in stack
1.Logger not printing with log4j.properties within Spring Boot 1.5.7
2.Spring boot logging with log4.properties file in not working
Edit 1
As Andy Wilkinson comments, i modified log4j.properties file content and file name, file name should be log4j2.properties.
I tried to log some string to log file as given below
public class ServiceMain {
private static final Logger logger = LogManager.getLogger(ServiceMain.class);
public static void main(String[] args) {
SpringApplication.run(ServiceMain.class, args);
logger.debug("----------------------Stating spring booot----------------------");
}
}
debug log "----------------------Stating spring booot----------------------" wont write to c:/log/service.log
Log file
2019-11-22 05:20:14,631 INFO o.s.b.StartupInfoLogger [main] Starting ServiceMain v7.0.0.0 on host-4 with PID 119176 (D:\Service\target\Service-1.0.jar started by Administrator in D:\Service\target)
2019-11-22 05:20:14,634 DEBUG o.s.b.StartupInfoLogger [main] Running with Spring Boot v2.2.1.RELEASE, Spring v5.2.1.RELEASE
2019-11-22 05:20:14,635 INFO o.s.b.SpringApplication [main] The following profiles are active: Service
2019-11-22 05:20:24,898 INFO o.s.b.StartupInfoLogger [main] Started ServiceMain in 12.312 seconds (JVM running for 14.189)
Did i miss any log4j2.properties configuration?

Answer 1

You are using Log4j 2 (which you should be as version 1 is no longer supported) but appear to be configuring it using a Log4j 1 configuration file.
You can learn more about Log4j 2’s configuration properties in its documentation. It includes this example:
status = error
dest = err
name = PropertiesConfig
property.filename = target/rolling/rollingtest.log
filter.threshold.type = ThresholdFilter
filter.threshold.level = debug
appender.console.type = Console
appender.console.name = STDOUT
appender.console.layout.type = PatternLayout
appender.console.layout.pattern = %m%n
appender.console.filter.threshold.type = ThresholdFilter
appender.console.filter.threshold.level = error
appender.rolling.type = RollingFile
appender.rolling.name = RollingFile
appender.rolling.fileName = ${filename}
appender.rolling.filePattern = target/rolling2/test1-%d{MM-dd-yy-HH-mm-ss}-%i.log.gz
appender.rolling.layout.type = PatternLayout
appender.rolling.layout.pattern = %d %p %C{1.} [%t] %m%n
appender.rolling.policies.type = Policies
appender.rolling.policies.time.type = TimeBasedTriggeringPolicy
appender.rolling.policies.time.interval = 2
appender.rolling.policies.time.modulate = true
appender.rolling.policies.size.type = SizeBasedTriggeringPolicy
appender.rolling.policies.size.size=100MB
appender.rolling.strategy.type = DefaultRolloverStrategy
appender.rolling.strategy.max = 5
logger.rolling.name = com.example.my.app
logger.rolling.level = debug
logger.rolling.additivity = false
logger.rolling.appenderRef.rolling.ref = RollingFile
rootLogger.level = info
rootLogger.appenderRef.stdout.ref = STDOUT