How to enable debug in slf4j Logger?

Question

How to globally enable debug for all the slf4j.Logger objects?

Answer 1

Just add the following to the application.properties

logging.level.org.springframework.web=DEBUG
logging.level.org.springframework.context=DEBUG

Answer 2

Programmatically, with logback:

setLoggingLevel(ch.qos.logback.classic.Level.DEBUG);

where

public static void setLoggingLevel(ch.qos.logback.classic.Level level) {
    ch.qos.logback.classic.Logger root = (ch.qos.logback.classic.Logger) org.slf4j.LoggerFactory.getLogger(ch.qos.logback.classic.Logger.ROOT_LOGGER_NAME);
    root.setLevel(level);
}

Answer 3

If you use log4j as the binding of slf4j you can crete a log4j.xml (or log4j.properties) file and add it to the classpath. An example could be:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE log4j:configuration SYSTEM "log4j.dtd">
<log4j:configuration xmlns:log4j="http://jakarta.apache.org/log4j/" debug="false">
  <appender name="CONSOLE" class="org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender">
    <param name="Target" value="System.out" />
    <param name="Threshold" value="DEBUG" />
    <layout class="org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout">
      <param name="ConversionPattern" value="%d{HH:mm:ss,SSS} %-5p [%c{1}] %m%n" />
    </layout>
  </appender>
  <root>
    <appender-ref ref="CONSOLE" />
  </root>
</log4j:configuration>