{"id":27288,"date":"2024-03-16T08:13:15","date_gmt":"2024-03-16T08:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-to-configure-multiple-log-files-with-logback\/"},"modified":"2024-03-22T10:40:24","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T10:40:24","slug":"how-to-configure-multiple-log-files-with-logback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-to-configure-multiple-log-files-with-logback\/","title":{"rendered":"How to configure multiple log files with logback?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Logback allows you to configure multiple appenders to set up multiple log files.<\/p>\n<p>Firstly, in the logback configuration file (usually logback.xml), you can define multiple appenders and specify different log file paths and formats for each appender. 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