Use https://github.com/hmrc/logback-json-logger instead

This is a Json encoder for Play applications logger. It uses MDC to output all its properties in the log message too.

These are the properties (for your application.conf) that you can use to alter the log output:

appName = MyApplication
logger.json.dateformat = yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSSZZ

You can then use the encoder in your logger configuration.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>

    <appender name="STDOUT" class="ch.qos.logback.core.ConsoleAppender">
        <encoder class="uk.gov.hmrc.play.logging.JsonEncoder"/>
    </appender>

    <logger name="uk.gov" level="DEBUG"/>

    <root level="INFO">
        <appender-ref ref="STDOUT"/>
    </root>
</configuration>

Include the following dependency in your SBT build

resolvers += Resolver.bintrayRepo("hmrc", "releases")

libraryDependencies += "uk.gov.hmrc" %% "play-json-logger" % "[INSERT_VERSION]"

Use version >=1.0.0 for Java 7 & Play 2.3.x

This code is open source software licensed under the Apache 2.0 License.