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Really it's very helpful to finding the huge logs.
Enabling logging at runtime in case of any errors reported; without recompiling.
2) Lazy logging, triggering policies, appenders, layouts,... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It's a very rare huge bears logs like unconditional huge .. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Its ability to adjust log-line severity is really useful. It's also rather configurable and flexible, which is great too! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The configuration is a bit dated and clunky. Could use some YAML or JSON treatment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Logging levels separation. That you can separate you logs as info warn debug and error. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It is actually not related to the logger library itself but if there would be an option to not to write a bunch or messages would be great Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Upsides include
- Rolling file appenders.
- Easy issue debugging reported by client Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Log4j community is not much strong when you are talking about application deployments on docker. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The best part is that after the setup, its easy to use, I use it with all my Maven projects. Its very agile, so its easy to manipulate the way I want, and easy for debugging Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The worst part is the installation, its complicated, also there is very little materials about its integration with RabbitMQ, which I also use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.


Good logging infrastructure without lots of efforts and I let's you define the format of output logs. It also helpsto categorize logs at different levels. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
We need to be cautios in developing the code aby bad code can affect the application performance and too much of loggers can cause confusion. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
You can use different logging libraries with SLF4J (for example Log4J or java.util logging),
and you can switch to a different logging library without changing anything to your own source code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The dependency version keeps changing for each API and compatibility sometimes cause issue Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Creating log files for our test scripts, which saves a lot of time. We can easily locate errors.
The main problem that was solved is monitoring runtime, nobody has to sit and watch the software run 24/7. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Little bit of complex.
It takes some time to understand it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The simplicity as well as the in depth control over logging is unparalleled. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Initially takes a bit of study to understand the full fledged potential of the API. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.