How to disable time and date info in console logs Spring

Question

How to disable time and date for console logs? Is there any way? Screen is not wide enough and this takes unnecessary place. Really annoys me

Answer 1

If you are using spring-boot , then by default it is using logback as it's logging mechanism. My suggestion is for you to do changes via logback.xml file in-order to change the log pattern.

It is a easy fix and create logback.xml file in your project's resources directory. I will mention below a sample xml for that. You can use my example and it will solve your issue.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>

    <!-- Appender for logging within the console -->
    <appender name="STDOUT" class="ch.qos.logback.core.ConsoleAppender">
        <encoder>
            <!-- Pattern of the console logging -->
 
            <!-- %d - Date and time -->
            <!-- %thread - Thread name -->
            <!-- %level - Log level (%p also works) -->
            <!-- %logger - Logger name -->
            <!-- %msg - Log message (%m also works) -->
            <!-- %n - Line separator -->
 
            <!-- %d{yyyy-MMM-dd HH:mm:ss} - Custom Date/Time format -->
            <!-- %-5level - Left justification flag - Use spaces for right padding if characters < 5 -->
            <!-- %logger{36} - Abbreviate -->
 
            <!-- [Date and time] [Thread] LoggingLevel : LoggerName - Logging message -->
            <pattern>[%thread] %-5level: %logger - %msg%n</pattern>
        </encoder>
    </appender>
 
    <!-- Logging levels are, in order of precedence -> TRACE, DEBUG, INFO, WARN and ERROR -->
    <root level="info">
        <appender-ref ref="STDOUT"/>
    </root>
 
</configuration>

Above logback.xml contains more comments for better understanding. You can control the pattern of your logs as you wish via modifying the <pattern> .

Hope this solves the issue.