-Dlogback.configurationFile=logback.xml ignored when running Spring-Boot

Question

We have a spring-boot 1.0.RC1 application, with logback configured for logging and a logback.xml file in src/test/resources. When we run spring-boot from maven, the logback

Answer 1

According to Spring Boot documentation, you could run like this:

java -jar app.jar --logging.config=./src/test/resources/logback.xml

Additionally, Spring Boot tries to unify the properties name of the different log startegies. As a result, the JVM parameter Dlogback.configurationFile is not used for Spring Boot.

Answer 2

If logback xml is under resources folder, you can add following to VM option:

java -jar App.jar -Dlogging.config=classpath:logback-local.xml