IntelliJ output console INFO colour

Question

Does anyone know why IntelliJ is printing all log messages to my console in red coloured text? This make it really hard to distinguish between info and trace messages and the a

Answer 1

I had exactly same problem. Not sure about your case, but mine was following:

I use SLF4j Simple Logger Facade in my projects (because it is simple, yup). So it turned out that if you don't specify org.slf4j.simpleLogger.logFile property in simplelogger.properties file located in your resources folder (as well as if you don't have that file at all), the logger output defaults to System.err which is red in Idea.

The solution proposed by @pavlo sort of helped, but the base colour was still red.

So I added this line to src/java/main/resources/simplelogger.properties:

org.slf4j.simpleLogger.logFile=System.out

and installed Grep Console Plugin. Together they perfectly solve the problem with SLF4j Simple Logger.