I want to do two things:
Console logging seems to work just fine but the log file keeps beeing empty.
This is my log4j2.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration status="WARN">
<appenders>
<Console name="Console" target="SYSTEM_OUT">
<PatternLayout pattern="%d{HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%t] %-5level %logger{36} - %msg%n"/>
</Console>
<File name="MyFile" fileName="logs/app.log" immediateFlush="true">
<PatternLayout pattern="%d{yyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%t] %-5level %logger{36} - %msg%n"/>
</File>
</appenders>
<loggers>
<logger name="filelogger" level="error">
<appender-ref ref="MyFile"/>
</logger>
<root level="info">
<appender-ref ref="Console"/>
</root>
</loggers>
</configuration>
What might be wrong?
I figured it out! The <Logger>
tag shouldn't be used in this case, see Gaurang Patel's answer for details.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration status="WARN">
<appenders>
<Console name="Console" target="SYSTEM_OUT">
<PatternLayout pattern="%d{HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%t] %-5level %logger{36} - %msg%n"/>
</Console>
<File name="MyFile" fileName="logs/app.log">
<PatternLayout pattern="%d{yyyy-mm-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%t] %-5level %logger{36} - %msg%n"/>
</File>
</appenders>
<loggers>
<root level="debug">
<appender-ref ref="Console" level="info"/>
<appender-ref ref="MyFile" level="error"/>
</root>
</loggers>
</configuration>