[logback-user] Log Message regardless of Log Level

[Chris Pratt]

Typically they are logged at the INFO level (Since they are informational).
 Which give the user the choice of logging them or not.  Choice is usually
seen by users as a good thing.
  (*Chris*)


On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 2:42 PM, Shane Kelly <logback at ballinascreen.com>wrote:

> Folks,
>
> Just wondering if there is a capability within Logback for writing a log
> message regardless of whatever log level has been set in configuration.
> Consider the scenario where I want my web application to output some
> diagnostic information at startup or shutdown - for example, the Web
> Application version, build date etc. If I were to set the log level of
> these messages to be TRACE, DEBUG, or INFO then its possible they may never
> be displayed since the app may typically be configured to run with a log
> level of WARN. Similarly, I don't want to set the log level of the messages
> to WARN, ERROR or FATAL in order to ensure that they do get displayed since
> they're not really error messages, and if we monitor the log files for
> WARN, ERROR or FATAL messages then this would trigger a false positive.
>
> So, is there some way to force a message to be logged at all times,
> independently of log level? Or some way to achieve this effect via existing
> configuration. Arguably I suppose this is bending the rules slightly, in
> that it could be abused - why offer the ability to filter certain log
> levels if an application can override/ignore them - but perhaps this is
> something which could be configurable/switchable?
>
> Regards,
>
> Shane
>
> _______________________________________________
> Logback-user mailing list
> Logback-user at qos.ch
> http://mailman.qos.ch/mailman/listinfo/logback-user
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mailman.qos.ch/pipermail/logback-user/attachments/20121214/15eaa1ed/attachment.html>