Add datetime to log file name - spring-boot

Question

I have some logs that I want to write to a file in a spring-boot microservice.
In my "application.yml" I have the below line which is working fine. But I also want to add date and time to the file name. How do I do that?
logging:
file: logs/${spring.application.name}.log
Ideally, I want the filename to be something like this:
logs/spring-boot-application_YYYY_MM_DD_HH_MM

Answer 1

A similar question has been answered here: How to include date in log file's name with Spring Boot / slf4j?
Basically if you want more control over the logging setup, you should have your own logback.xml under src/main/resources and configure the naming format similar to:
<FileNamePattern>LogFile.%d{yyyy-MM-dd}.log</FileNamePattern>

Answer 2

If you are using spring-boot , you could easily specify it in application.yml or application.properties and configuring logback xml to enable Rolling File Appender as :
spring:
logging:
file: logs/dev_app.log
pattern:
console: "%d %-5level %logger : %msg%n"
file: "%d %-5level [%thread] %logger : %msg%n"
level:
org.springframework.web: DEBUG
guru.springframework.controllers: DEBUG
org.hibernate: DEBUG
and specify the time based rolling policy for the file in :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
<include resource="org/springframework/boot/logging/logback/base.xml"/>
<appender name="ROLLIN" class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.RollingFileAppender">
<file>${LOG_FILE}</file>
<rollingPolicy class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.TimeBasedRollingPolicy">
<!-- daily rollover -->
<fileNamePattern>${LOG_FILE}.%d{yyyy-MM-dd}.log</fileNamePattern>
</rollingPolicy>
</appender>
<root level="INFO">
<appender-ref ref="ROLLIN" />
</root>
<logger name="org.springframework.web" level="INFO"/>
</configuration>
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