Configuring your Spring Boot application for simple HTTP access logging using logback-access

The main goal of this booster is to send Tomcat's access logging to stdout, which, in the context of an application running on OpenShift, means appending access logs to the OpenShift console, thus enabling administrators to use the central logging facility to monitor Tomcat's activity.

You can also turn on Tomcat DEBUG logging by setting in application.yml: logging: level.org.apache.tomcat: "DEBUG"

References

• For more details on logback-access, please look at https://logback.qos.ch/access.html
• An interesting third-party project with deeper logback-access integration with Spring Boot can be found at: https://github.com/akihyro/logback-access-spring-boot-starter
• More details on embedded servlet containers in Spring Boot: https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/html/howto-embedded-servlet-containers.html