Colored logs in IntelliJ with logback custom pattern in yaml configuration of Spring Boot application

Question

Running a SpringBoot application with the default logback pattern configuration shows colored logs:

But when introducing a custom pattern in main.yaml configuration like:

logging:
  pattern:
    console: "%date %thread %level [%logger{10}:%line] %method | %msg%n"

Colors in logs are gone:

How to maintain colored when changing logback pattern?

Answer 1

Checking logback documentation on layouts | colouring section explains how to use colors grouping by parentheses.

So tried this pattern configuration:

logging:
  pattern:
    console: "%date %thread %green(%level) [%cyan(%logger{10}):%magenta(%line)] %red(%method) | %msg%n"

Final result: