Structured Logging in Spring Boot
Yatin B.Date: 2025-02-19
This article explains how to implement structured logging in Spring Boot applications, enhancing traditional logging with JSON formatted logs for easier analysis using tools like ELK or Loki. It details adding necessary dependencies and configuring logback-spring.xml to output JSON logs. The article also covers using Mapped Diagnostic Context (MDC) for custom fields and demonstrates configuring logs in Elastic Common Schema (ECS) and Graylog Extended Log Format (GELF) for improved log management. Structured logging simplifies log parsing and searching, especially beneficial in cloud environments.
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