How to disable error logs being printed to the console during unit tests execution with log4j2?

Question

After upgrading to Log4j2, error logs are printing to console during unit tests execution.

I tried to add status=FATAL in the configuration file to avoid error printing on console.

# ----------------------------------------------------------------
# LOGGING
# ----------------------------------------------------------------

# Note - this section is similar to the log4j2 properties syntax
# https://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/manual/configuration.html#Properties

status=FATAL;
test.*.log4j2.rootLogger.level=INFO;
*.*.log4j2.rootLogger.level=INFO;

*.*.log4j2.rootLogger.appenderRefs=(APPLICATION);
*.*.log4j2.appenders=(APPLICATION);

*.*.log4j2.appender.APPLICATION.type=AmazonRollingRandomAccessFile;
*.*.log4j2.appender.APPLICATION.name=APPLICATION;
*.*.log4j2.appender.APPLICATION.filePattern="var/output/logs/$APP.%d{yyyy-MM-dd-HH}";
*.*.log4j2.appender.APPLICATION.layout.type=PatternLayout;
# Standard log format but with the purchase id appended after the message.
# This location is to not break rtla processing, which parses everything up-to & including the logger (%c)
*.*.log4j2.appender.APPLICATION.layout.pattern="%d{DATE} [%p] %X{RequestId} (%t) %c: %m [Purchase: %X{PurchaseId}]%n";

The reference doc .

But seems it is not taking status into consideration and it is still printing logs on console.

I tried with all the options below as well, but no luck:

status=FATAL; ..log4j2.status=INFO; ..log4j2.status=ERROR;

Answer 1

The status of the Configuration only relates to the internal logging of log4j2 itself, ie you can use it to debug your configuration of log4j2 , but it is not used for your actual application.

If you want to disable all logging for your application , you can set the ThresholdFilter of your configuration to off :

filter.threshold.type = ThresholdFilter
filter.threshold.level = off

or you can set your root logger to level = off (provided you don't have any other loggers defined):

rootLogger.level = off

A complete example of something that would work:

status = warn
name = TestConfig

filter.threshold.type = ThresholdFilter
filter.threshold.level = off

appender.list.type = List
appender.list.name = List
appender.list.filter.threshold.type = ThresholdFilter
appender.list.filter.threshold.level = trace

logger.whatever.name = com.relentlesscoding.logging
logger.whatever.level = trace
logger.whatever.additivity = false
logger.whatever.appenderRef.whatever.ref = List

rootLogger.level = trace