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

In log4j.properties you can define individual levels on a per logger basis:

log4j.logger.=FATAL

In log4j.xml the syntax is

is often the full qualified classname. You might want to use WARN or ERROR instead of FATAL