Caused by: org.apache.logging.log4j.LoggingException: log4j-slf4j-impl cannot be present with log4j-to-slf4j

Question

In my Spring boot 2 project:

In build.gradle:

dependencies {
    implementation \'com.google.code.gson:gson:2.7\'
    imple         


        

Answer 1

Spring boot 2.3.0.RELEASE version, support Log4j2 natively, for logging configuration if it is on the classpath. In this case, you can simply remove other log4j dependencies.

In other case, if you use the starters for assembling dependencies, you have to exclude Logback and then include log4j 2 instead:

You can do like that with Gradle:

dependencies {
    implementation 'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-web'
    implementation 'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-log4j2'
}

configurations {
    all {
        exclude group: 'org.springframework.boot', module: 'spring-boot-starter-logging'
    }
}

Or with Maven:

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


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

More information on the official documentation: https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/htmlsingle/#howto-configure-log4j-for-logging