Ralph, Thanks for your suggestion - after a quick skim through the documentation it certainly looks like markers may provide the behaviour I'm looking for - will give that a try.
Regards, Shane On 15 December 2012 00:21, Ralph Goers <[email protected]> wrote: > Use a Marker. Then set a Marker filter to always accept events with that > Marker. > > Ralph > > > On Dec 14, 2012, at 2:42 PM, Shane Kelly 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 > > _______________________________________________ > > Logback-user mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mailman.qos.ch/mailman/listinfo/logback-user > > _______________________________________________ > Logback-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.qos.ch/mailman/listinfo/logback-user >
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