I need to make logback report problems back as exceptions. Our general deployment scenario is one where programs are restarted every day, and are tedious to monitor unless they explicitly make themselves heard. Hence logfiles are important and a failure in the logging framework configuration should cause the program to stop there and then. To my knowledge things like cannot write to log file X/Y/Z or bad configuration are currently just logged using logbacks internal mechanism and the application does not know anything about it. Id prefer not having logback specific code in my application as we strive to be logging framework neutral, but if it is unavoidable to do this I can make an exception. Thanks for any help /Thorbjørn