Logging statements found in the android source code that are not slf4j, but in the form of Log.e(TAG, "details"); do not appear in console. Some of my robolectric tests were failing and as I was going through the code I noticed that in the android class "android.database.sqlite.SQLiteDatabase" method there is a method "insert" that looks like this: public long insert(String table, String nullColumnHack, ContentValues values) { try { return insertWithOnConflict(table, nullColumnHack, values, CONFLICT_NONE); } catch (SQLException e) { Log.e(TAG, "Error inserting " + values, e); return -1; } } When my test run this method returned -1 but after looking at the output in Intellijs console I noticed that the log statement explaining the error was missing. Is there a way for this statement that is not slf4j to be displayed in the console? I assume that if I was running the application and the same error occurred it would appear in the logcat window. my logback.xml for tests looks like this <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <configuration> <property name="appender.encoder.pattern" value="%d | %-10r | %5p | %-30t | %-100logger{100} | %-50M | %-5L | %m %n"/> <appender name="CONSOLE" class="ch.qos.logback.core.ConsoleAppender"> <encoder> <pattern>${appender.encoder.pattern}</pattern> </encoder> </appender> <logger name="com.myapp"> <level value="TRACE"/> </logger> <root> <level value="INFO"/> <appender-ref ref="CONSOLE"/> </root> </configuration>