Hello, You can mark a logging statement as "ALWAYS" and have a turbo filter act upon it. Here is how you would mark a logging statement with the ALWAYS marker: Marker ALWAYS = MarkerFactory.getMarker("ALWAYS"); logger.info(ALWAYS, "your message goes here"); You can than add a MarkerFilter to your logback.xml config file. This turbo filter would look for the ALWAYS marker and matching occurrences would be automatically logged (i.e. accepted) regardless of logging levels. <configuration> ... <turboFilter class="ch.qos.logback.classic.turbo.MarkerFilter"> <Marker>ALWAYS</Marker> <OnMatch>ACCEPT</OnMatch> </turboFilter> </configuration> For more details on TurboFilters please see http://logback.qos.ch/manual/filters.html#TurboFilter HTH, laboo wrote:

I'm looking for a way to always log a message regardless of the current level of logger.

My application allows the user to change the level via JMX and I always want to log a message that says, "The level was changed from X to Y".

I *could* accomplish this by specifying the highest level, ERROR, but it's not an error, and I don't want it to show up as one.

In log4j, I was able to accomplish this by using the log() method with level OFF (strangely enough). I tried doing something similar with logback's level ALL, but it's not accepted as valid level to the log() method.

Is there a different/better way to accomplish this?

Thanks,

Laboo

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