An example logback configuration file

logback.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration scan="true" scanPeriod="30 seconds">

    <contextName>myApplication</contextName>

    <appender name="FILE" class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.RollingFileAppender">
        <file>${catalina.home}/logs/${CONTEXT_NAME}.log</file>
        <rollingPolicy class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.TimeBasedRollingPolicy">
            <!-- daily rollover -->
            <fileNamePattern>${catalina.home}/logs/${CONTEXT_NAME}-%d{yyyy-MM-dd}.log</fileNamePattern>
            <!-- keep 30 days' worth of history -->
            <maxHistory>30</maxHistory>
        </rollingPolicy>

        <encoder>
            <pattern>%d{HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%thread] %level %logger - %msg%n</pattern>
        </encoder>
    </appender>

    <appender name="STDOUT" class="ch.qos.logback.core.ConsoleAppender">
        <encoder>
            <pattern>%contextName: %d{HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%thread] %level %logger - %msg%n</pattern>
        </encoder>
    </appender>

    <root level="DEBUG">
        <appender-ref ref="FILE"/>
        <appender-ref ref="STDOUT"/>
    </root>

    <logger name="org.hibernate">
        <level value="INFO"/>
    </logger>
    <logger name="org.springframework">
        <level value="INFO"/>
    </logger>

</configuration>