Hello Bruno, Thank you for your kind words. They are much appreciated. Can you please create the a jira issue asking for a formatted message in JsonEncoder as an option? Regards, -- Ceki Gülcü Sponsoring SLF4J/logback/reload4j at https://github.com/sponsors/qos-ch On 6/20/2023 8:46 PM, Bruno Ballekens via logback-user wrote:

Hi,

i like very much the JsonEncoder that you've added to 1.4.8. Previously we worked with ch.qos.logback.contrib.jackson.JacksonJsonFormatter, but great to see it now natively supported.

However, i've stumbled upon the fact that it does not put the "formatted message" in the json payload. It puts the message and the argument array. Some of the libs we use, dolog using the message format based methods, which now look strange in our log aggregation system (sometimes we even see {} as the message with then the actual message as the single member of the argument array).

I checked the code of the JsonEncoder and do not see any configuration based way of having the formatted in the json payload (preferably with the "message" key). Do you foresee something like this in the future ?  Or do we need to subclass the JsonEncoder ?

Thanks Regards