Spring Boot log rotation

Last updated: 9/24/2026

Create logback.xml files to configure how the Spring Boot logs are generated.

For information about the Spring Boot logging system, see https://www.baeldung.com/spring-boot-logging

Procedure

In $IAM_HOME/apache-tomcat/conf/iam.properties, add a new line to indicate the path to the configuration files of the Spring Boot logs.
Example
```
logging.config=classpath:logback.xml
```

Create a logback.xml file for each of the related Talend applications:

Example

vim $IAM_HOME/apache-tomcat/webapps/(idp|oidc|scim|sts|sts-tac)/WEB-INF/classes/logback.xml

Note: Note that the logback.xml files for scim.log and sts-tac.log already exist.

The content of each logback.xml file should look like:

<configuration>
         <property name="LOG_PATTERN"
                   value="%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS} %highlight(-%5p) [%t] %-40.40logger{39} : %m%n" 
         />
         <appender name="FILE"
                   class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.RollingFileAppender">
               <file>${CATALINA_BASE:-.}/logs/<app>.log</file>
               <rollingPolicy class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.TimeBasedRollingPolicy">
                  <fileNamePattern>${CATALINA_BASE:-.}/logs/<app>.%d{yyyy-MM-dd}.log</fileNamePattern>
                  <maxHistory>10</maxHistory>
                  <totalSizeCap>100 mb</totalSizeCap>
               </rollingPolicy>
               <encoder>
                  <pattern>${LOG_PATTERN}</pattern>
               </encoder>
         </appender>
         <appender name="STDOUT" class="ch.qos.logback.core.ConsoleAppender">
               <encoder>
                  <pattern>${LOG_PATTERN}</pattern>
               </encoder>
         </appender>
         <root level="INFO">
               <appender-ref ref="FILE" />
               <appender-ref ref="STDOUT" />
         </root>
</configuration>

For sts.log and sts-tac.log, you can add the audit related appender to their logback.xml files. Then the content should look like:

<configuration>
         <property name="LOG_PATTERN"
                   value="%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS} -%highlight(%5p) [%t] %-40.40logger{39} : %m%n" />
<!-- %d [%t] %-5p %c %x - %m%n -->
         <appender name="FILE"
                   class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.RollingFileAppender">
               <file>${CATALINA_BASE:-.}/logs/<app>.log</file>
               <rollingPolicy class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.TimeBasedRollingPolicy">
                  <fileNamePattern>${CATALINA_BASE:-.}/logs/<app>.%d{yyyy-MM-dd}.log</fileNamePattern>
                  <maxHistory>10</maxHistory>
                  <totalSizeCap>100 mb</totalSizeCap>
               </rollingPolicy>
               <encoder>
                  <pattern>${LOG_PATTERN}</pattern>
               </encoder>
         </appender>
         <appender name="AUDIT"
                   class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.RollingFileAppender">
               <file>${CATALINA_BASE:-.}/logs/<app>/audit-tac.log</file>
               <rollingPolicy class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.TimeBasedRollingPolicy">
                   <fileNamePattern>${CATALINA_BASE:-.}/logs/<app>/audit-tac.%d{yyyy-MMdd}.log</fileNamePattern>
                   <maxHistory>10</maxHistory>
                   <totalSizeCap>20 mb</totalSizeCap>
               </rollingPolicy>
               <encoder>
                   <pattern>${LOG_PATTERN}</pattern>
               </encoder>
         </appender>
         <appender name="STDOUT" class="ch.qos.logback.core.ConsoleAppender">
               <encoder>
                   <pattern>${LOG_PATTERN}</pattern>
               </encoder>
         </appender>
         <logger name="org.talend.identity.sts.event.map.MapEventLogger" level="DEBUG" additivity="false">
               <appender-ref ref="AUDIT" />
         </logger>
         <root level="INFO">
               <appender-ref ref="FILE" />
               <appender-ref ref="STDOUT" />
         </root>
</configuration>

In the example, the log level is defined in each logback.xml file, but you can change the log level globally by adding the following line to the iam.properties file:

logging.level.root=DEBUG

The value of the parameter could be

TRACE
DEBUG
INFO
WARN
ERROR

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