My spring boot app uses logback to log messages in json format. The app is configured to use consolelogappender (stdout).When the logs appear in stackdriver, they appear as textPayload instead of jsonPayload. Is it possible to write message to jsonPayload field in stackdriver using logback? If not, what are my options to log in json format?
Based on this Github Link it seems the issue all log entries are seen as textpayload. It has been added as a Feature Request but we do not have an ETA on when it will be available.
I'm not entirely sure if an alternative exist as Logback seems to be giving extensive log information, but if you are able to use the Stackdriver Logging Client instead, you could format the entry in order to get your object as a JsonPayLoad, although you will have specify most of the log categories yourself which can be an extra amount of work.