Starter spring-boot-starter-logging is all that you need to use the Logback framework. This dependency is the default logging included in most of the starters, including spring-boot-starter-web. The dependency is shown as follows:
<dependency> <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId> <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-logging</artifactId> </dependency>
The following snippet shows logback and related dependencies included in spring-boot-starter-logging:
<dependency> <groupId>ch.qos.logback</groupId> <artifactId>logback-classic</artifactId> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId> <artifactId>jcl-over-slf4j</artifactId> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId> <artifactId>jul-to-slf4j</artifactId> </dependency> ...
