Prevent Spring Boot from printing logs to console

Question

I am using spring boot for my application and I am using default spring boot logging.

In my application.properties, I have added file path for log

Answer 1

Include file-appender.xml and not console-appender with following configuration in logback-spring.xml:

You also need to add logging.file to your application.properties

This is in compliance to what is mentioned in spring boot documentation - http://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/html/howto-logging.html