Spring Boot enable http requests logging (access logs)

Question

How to enable access logs in an embedded tomcat server provided by spring boot? I\'ve tried this in application.properties but

Answer 1

With Spring Boot 2.X, if you want to manage Access logs, add these lines to your application.yml file:

server:
  tomcat:
    basedir: /home/tmp
    accesslog:
      enabled: true

It will create a folder named logs in the basedir you defined (/home/tmp here) containing the access log files.

If you want to have access logs in the console do like that:

server:
  tomcat:
    accesslog:
      enabled: true
      directory: /dev
      prefix: stdout
      buffered: false
      suffix:
      file-date-format:

It will rediect logs to /dev/stdout

More informations: https://community.pivotal.io/s/article/how-to-configure-access-log-entries-for-a-spring-boot-app?language=en_US