How to create 2 different ROOT loggers with logback?
You will not ever have more than one root-logger, so your question is a bit misleading. What you are looking for is how to fine-tune which events each of the appenders does log.
And for that, you add a ThresholdFilter to each of the appenders:
http://logback.qos.ch/manual/filters.html#thresholdFilter
<filter class="ch.qos.logback.classic.filter.ThresholdFilter">
<level>INFO</level>
</filter>
Configure level INFO for the FILE-appender and DEBUG for STDOUT.
Edit: I have to dispute the other answer's charge that this one is wrong: Yes, you can have more than one root-element in the configuration. That does not create more than one root-logger though, which was what the question's title asks for. Also, the logback manual states under http://logback.qos.ch/manual/configuration.html#syntax (highlighting mine):
Nevertheless, the very basic structure of the configuration file can be described as, < configuration > element, followed by zero or more < appender > elements, followed by zero or more < logger > elements, followed by at most one < root > element.
It might work, but at the very least it's against convention.
You can have multiple root
elements, each with an associated logging level
and an appender-ref
(I'm working with logback.version>1.0.13
)
In this case you also have to put a FILTER inside yours appenders, like that:
<contextListener class="ch.qos.logback.classic.jul.LevelChangePropagator">
<resetJUL>true</resetJUL>
</contextListener>
<!-- To enable JMX Management -->
<jmxConfigurator/>
<appender name="console-info" class="ch.qos.logback.core.ConsoleAppender">
<filter class="ch.qos.logback.classic.filter.LevelFilter">
<level>INFO</level>
<onMatch>ACCEPT</onMatch>
<onMismatch>DENY</onMismatch>
</filter>
<encoder>
<pattern>%-4relative [%thread] %-5level %logger{35} - %msg %n</pattern>
</encoder>
</appender>
<appender name="console-debug" class="ch.qos.logback.core.ConsoleAppender">
<filter class="ch.qos.logback.classic.filter.LevelFilter">
<level>DEBUG</level>
<onMatch>ACCEPT</onMatch>
<onMismatch>DENY</onMismatch>
</filter>
<encoder>
<pattern>[%d{ddMMMyyyy HH:mm:ss.SS}]%-5level %logger{45} - %msg %n</pattern>
</encoder>
</appender>
<root level="info">
<appender-ref ref="console-info"/>
</root>
<root level="debug">
<appender-ref ref="console-debug"/>
</root>