Can i do custom logging in spring boot application? - spring-boot

Question

In my enterprise application, i have several background jobs to fulfill various business requirement.
eg :- Bill generation job,Activate package job etc.
Here i need to specific custom logging to validate the job status,job input,if fails then reason etc.
How can i achieve above requirement , i don't need other application logs, just need logs related to jobs.
I need something like this in code.
For eg.
log.info ("Job inputs")
log.info(Job success status)
In log file output should be like:-
Info : Job inputs
Info : Job success

Answer 1

Create a file logback-spring.xml in resources folder with content:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
<property name="LOGS" value="./logs"/>
<appender name="Console"
class="ch.qos.logback.core.ConsoleAppender">
<layout class="ch.qos.logback.classic.PatternLayout">
<Pattern>
%black(%d{ISO8601}) %highlight(%-5level) [%blue(%t)] %yellow(%C{1.}):
%msg%n%throwable
</Pattern>
</layout>
</appender>
<appender name="RollingFile"
class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.RollingFileAppender">
<file>${LOGS}/spring-boot-logger.log</file>
<encoder
class="ch.qos.logback.classic.encoder.PatternLayoutEncoder">
<Pattern>%d %p %C{1.} [%t] %m%n</Pattern>
</encoder>
<rollingPolicy
class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.TimeBasedRollingPolicy">
<!-- rollover daily and when the file reaches 10 MegaBytes -->
<fileNamePattern>${LOGS}/archived/spring-boot-logger-%d{yyyy-MM-dd}.%i.log
</fileNamePattern>
<timeBasedFileNamingAndTriggeringPolicy
class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.SizeAndTimeBasedFNATP">
<maxFileSize>10MB</maxFileSize>
</timeBasedFileNamingAndTriggeringPolicy>
</rollingPolicy>
</appender>
<!-- LOG everything at INFO level -->
<root level="info">
<appender-ref ref="Console"/>
</root>
<logger name="desired-package-name" level="info" additivity="false">
<appender-ref ref="RollingFile"/>
</logger>
</configuration>