Filtering out log4j messages from third-party frameworks?

Question

How do I filter log messages from external third party frameworks? I am using Hibernate and Spring framework and I would like to suppress the logs so that only my log4j logs

Answer 1

You can do it by changing logger level in log4j.properties/log4j.xml file.

You need to set logger's if you want to filter logs from package but keep logger configuration for later use. You could also set it to highest level to log only in case of error or fatal issue.

Following entries should be added to log4j.xml to turn off logging from hibernate and springframework packages: