Log color in Spring Boot

Yes that’s right! Staring at the bland plain logs is monotonous & cumbersome. It was & is painful to always figure out the warnings & errors out of logs.

While in Oracle Commerce (ATG) we used to have a special program the LogColorizer to color the console output making it easy for us to figure out error (colored red) & warnings (colored yellow).

Way to colors

Now with Spring I started missing it until I discovered that in their documentation.
Just follow these 2 steps:

• In your application.properties add below configuration:

    # default value is DETECT
    spring.output.ansi.enabled=ALWAYS
  

• In your terminal set the environment variable to enable ANSI output:

    export CLICOLOR=1
  

Now start you application to see the new look:

That’s all. Thanks. Please feel free suggest me any edits or help you need.