Spring Boot: LoggingApplicationListener interfering with Application Server logging

Question

Spring Boot automatically initializes the underlying logging system using the LoggingApplicationListener. This is a nice thing if the application I\'m developin

Answer 1

thank you for you post it is very helpful. I had the same problem with Websphere Aplication Server: After spring boot context initialized I had no more logs. This solution is equivalent but less dirty by overriding the run method of SpringBootServletInitializer:

@Override
    protected WebApplicationContext run(SpringApplication application) {
        Collection<ApplicationListener<?>> listeners =
                new ArrayList<>();
        for (ApplicationListener<?> listener: application.getListeners()) {
            if (!(listener instanceof LoggingApplicationListener)) {
                listeners.add(listener);
            }
        }
        application.setListeners(listeners);
        return super.run(application);
    }

Answer 2

Since Spring Boot 1.4 the LoggingSystem autoconfiguration can be disabled.

Take a look at the Custom Log Configuration section of the Spring documentation:

You can force Spring Boot to use a particular logging system by using the org.springframework.boot.logging.LoggingSystem system property. The value should be the fully qualified class name of a LoggingSystem implementation. You can also disable Spring Boot’s logging configuration entirely by using a value of none.

For Tomcat, for example, set the environment variable JAVA_OPTS:

JAVA_OPTS="-Dorg.springframework.boot.logging.LoggingSystem=none"