How to properly shutdown log4j2

Question

If one is not running inside a web application, what is the proper way to shutdown Log4j2? I only see a noop LogManager.shutdown()

Answer 1

Log4j-Web library is the preferred way to properly clean-up resources in Web-application.

To enable it, add such a dependency to your pom.xml

    org.apache.logging.log4j
    log4j-web
    ${log4j2.version}
    runtime

It will work 'out-of-the box' in Servlet 3.* environment. If you're using older Servlet specification, details how to enable proper cleaning for log4j2 are available here: https://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/manual/webapp.html