Making a log4j console appender use different colors for different threads

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You can use MulticolorLayout from jcabi-log. Add this dependency to the project:

<dependency>
  <groupId>com.jcabi</groupId>
  <artifactId>jcabi-log</artifactId>
  <version>0.17.1</version>
</dependency>

And then configure it in log4j.properties:

log4j.rootLogger=INFO, CONSOLE
log4j.appender.CONSOLE=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender
log4j.appender.CONSOLE.layout=com.jcabi.log.MulticolorLayout
log4j.appender.CONSOLE.layout.ConversionPattern=[%color{%p}] %c: %m%n

Same in log4j.xml:

<appender name="CONSOLE" class="org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender">
    <param name="Target" value="System.out" />
    <layout class="com.jcabi.log.MulticolorLayout">
        <param name="ConversionPattern" value="[%color{%p}] %m%n" />
    </layout>
</appender>

In this example, %p will be replaced by DEBUG, INFO, ERROR, etc. and then painted into the color that is relevant to the logging level. Besides that you are able to use your own colors or predefined colors, for example:

log4j.appender.CONSOLE.layout.ConversionPattern=[%p] $color-cyan{%c}: %color-red{%m}%n
log4j.appender.CONSOLE.layout.ConversionPattern=[%p] $color-0;0;31{%c}: %m%n

More documentation about ANSI colors.

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