Play - disable Logger colors

Question

I'm using play.api.Logger to log in my Play application like:

import play.api.Logger
Logger.info("message to log")

By default this will use shell colors resulting in something like this

[[37minfo[0m] application - message to log

if the terminal you're using doesn't support colors.

Is there a way to tell Logger to not use colors?

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 12 '16 at 14:29

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You can modify the log pattern inside conf/logback.xml. The default pattern is:

<pattern>%coloredLevel - %logger - %message%n%xException</pattern>

You could change it to:

<pattern>%level - %logger - %message%n%xException</pattern>

answered Feb 12 '16 at 14:29

Michael Vaughan

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:32

2

Found the answer here. The -Dsbt.log.noformat=true disables console log colors.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:32

Community

answered Feb 12 '16 at 14:39

tano

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 12 '16 at 14:22

1

You can configure sbt/activator to show logs entries without colors. Just start it with property -no-colors

answered Feb 12 '16 at 14:22

vvg

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