How to enable Logback-access in Spring Boot? - spring

Question

I'm trying to enable logback-access in a spring boot app to log all http requests that hit the application.
I've tried implementing this using: https://github.com/akihyro/logback-access-spring-boot-starter
Adding the XML file shown in the example doesn't do anything, is there anything more that needs to be added to enable?
Any other suggestions to achieve the same result would be welcomed :)

Answer 1

you still need to wire a bean to your application...like this code snippet wires the filter to your application:
#SpringBootApplication
public class MyApp {
public static void main(String[] args) {
SpringApplication.run(MyApp.class, args);
}
// ... your other methods here
#Bean
public CommonsRequestLoggingFilter logFilter() {
CommonsRequestLoggingFilter filter = new CommonsRequestLoggingFilter();
filter.setIncludeQueryString(true);
return filter;
}
}

Answer 2

I am pretty sure you are talking about the logback logger for SpringBoot. If I am not wrong, this is how you can do this
a. Add the dependency in your POM
<dependency>
<groupId>ch.qos.logback</groupId>
<artifactId>logback-classic</artifactId>
</dependency>
b. Now there are may ways you can ask spring to configure logback. For example
In the application.properties file
In the logback.xml file
The advantage of using logback.xml file is that, you might have different xml file for different build profile. But in the application.properties, you don’t have this freedom.
Sample entries in the application.properties file from one of my project
logging.level.org.springframework.web = INFO
logging.level.com.company.app = DEBUG
#logging.level.org.hibernate=ERROR
logging.file=logs/spring-boot-logging.log
## Hibernate Logging
logging.level.org.hibernate.SQL = DEBUG
If you are using XML, configuration probably will look like this
<configuration>
<appender name="STDOUT" class="ch.qos.logback.core.ConsoleAppender">
<layout class="ch.qos.logback.classic.PatternLayout">
<Pattern>%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss} [%thread] %-5level %logger{36} - %msg%n</Pattern>
</layout>
</appender>
<logger name="org.springframework" level="error" additivity="false">
<appender-ref ref="STDOUT" />
</logger>
<logger name="org.springframework" level="info" additivity="false">
<appender-ref ref="STDOUT" />
</logger>
<logger name="org.springframework" level="warn" additivity="false">
<appender-ref ref="STDOUT" />
</logger>
<logger name="com.memorynotfound" level="debug" additivity="false">
<appender-ref ref="STDOUT" />
</logger>
<configuration scan="true"/>
</configuration>
I recommend you to do some Googling for better understating.
Good luck!