Typically they are logged at the INFO level (Since they are informational).
 Which give the user the choice of logging them or not.  Choice is usually
seen by users as a good thing.
  (*Chris*)


On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 2:42 PM, Shane Kelly <[email protected]>wrote:

> Folks,
>
> Just wondering if there is a capability within Logback for writing a log
> message regardless of whatever log level has been set in configuration.
> Consider the scenario where I want my web application to output some
> diagnostic information at startup or shutdown - for example, the Web
> Application version, build date etc. If I were to set the log level of
> these messages to be TRACE, DEBUG, or INFO then its possible they may never
> be displayed since the app may typically be configured to run with a log
> level of WARN. Similarly, I don't want to set the log level of the messages
> to WARN, ERROR or FATAL in order to ensure that they do get displayed since
> they're not really error messages, and if we monitor the log files for
> WARN, ERROR or FATAL messages then this would trigger a false positive.
>
> So, is there some way to force a message to be logged at all times,
> independently of log level? Or some way to achieve this effect via existing
> configuration. Arguably I suppose this is bending the rules slightly, in
> that it could be abused - why offer the ability to filter certain log
> levels if an application can override/ignore them - but perhaps this is
> something which could be configurable/switchable?
>
> Regards,
>
> Shane
>
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