Display Gradle output in console in Intellij IDEA 2016.1.1

Question

When running Gradle task from IDEA:

console output looks like:

As one can see, bootRun task failed. But I can\'t find the reason o

Answer 1

In IDEA 2019.2.3 the icon has change. See circled icon in image:

Answer 2

You can click the icon marked in the image bellow

Toggle tasks executions/text mode

That will switch to the console log of your build and you can see what went wrong.

UPDATE: As of 2019.2.3, you don't need to toggle task/console view as you can see now both at the same time: