Maven Spring Boot Failed to instantiate SLF4J LoggerFactory Reported exception:

Question

I am following the tutorial https://spring.io/guides/gs/actuator-service/

And when I try to run the App I get:

Failed to instantiate SLF4J LoggerF

Answer 1

Below actions worked for me

1. Run mvn dependency:purge-local-repository to remove all dependencies and force a re-download.
2. Then do a mvn clean verify