It’s very possible to do something like this in logback. Here’s an example configuration:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<configuration>
<appender name="FILE" class="ch.qos.logback.core.FileAppender">
<file>logfile.log</file>
<append>true</append>
<encoder>
<pattern>%-4relative [%thread] %-5level %logger{35} - %msg %n</pattern>
</encoder>
</appender>
<appender name="ANALYTICS-FILE" class="ch.qos.logback.core.FileAppender">
<file>analytics.log</file>
<append>true</append>
<encoder>
<pattern>%-4relative [%thread] %-5level %logger{35} - %msg %n</pattern>
</encoder>
</appender>
<!-- additivity=false ensures analytics data only goes to the analytics log -->
<logger name="analytics" level="DEBUG" additivity="false">
<appender-ref ref="ANALYTICS-FILE"/>
</logger>
<root>
<appender-ref ref="FILE"/>
</root>
</configuration>
Then you’d setup two separate loggers, one for everything and one to log analytics data like so:
Logger analytics = LoggerFactory.getLogger("analytics");