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Provide a configuration option to disable transferring logging.* properties from the environment to system properties

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Description

Hi,

We have a Spring boot application deployed into a tomcat instance. A tomcat instance can contain multiple webapp instances.
We noticed that Spring Boot logger system was setting system properties using System.setProperty in LoggingSystemProperties. This is very bad in our case since a system property is global to the JVM and therefore to all deployed web applications.

This looks like a major bug to us.
Is there at least a way to disable LoggingApplicationListener?

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Research direction

Start by reading LoggingSystemProperties and LoggingApplicationListener, focusing on how logging.* environment properties are transferred with System.setProperty. Trace the existing logging initialization path and determine where a configuration option could control that transfer. Done means applications can disable the transfer so logging properties are not made global to the JVM.

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Assessment

Tech stack
java, spring-boot
Domain
backend
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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