Description
Thank you for the new integrated structured logging in Spring Boot 3.4. I have been very satisfied with its behaviour and the ergonomics of using it contrasted with having to wire that up, myself.
I would like to be able to explicitly disable it, though. I have a situation where, for safety purposes, the setting is distributed widely with
logging.structured.format.console=ecs
for correct default behaviour, but that leads to developers being unable to view plain text logs anywhere, namely during development, on account of the settings having no non-structured override option. The JSON logs are a lot more difficult to parse so that one use case has suffered considerably.
Before 3.4, we relied on a local
logging.config=
to disable a similarly distributed configuration and that worked well enough. Unfortunately there is no analogue for logging.structured.format.console that lets us do the same.