<configuration>
    <appender name="STDOUT" class="ch.qos.logback.core.ConsoleAppender">
        <encoder>
            <pattern>[%thread] %-5level - %msg%n%replace(%rootException{5
                , sun.reflect
                , java.lang
                , java.util
                , org.gradle
                , com.sun
                , org.junit}){'\\n', '~~'}%nopexception</pattern>
        </encoder>
    </appender>

    <logger name="test" level="debug" additivity="false">
        <appender-ref ref="STDOUT"/>
    </logger>
    <root level="error">
        <appender-ref ref="STDOUT"/>
    </root>
</configuration>

10:52:50,790 |-ERROR in ch.qos.logback.core.joran.spi.Interpreter@11:19 - RuntimeException in Action for tag [encoder] java.lang.NullPointerException10:52:50,790 |-ERROR in ch.qos.logback.core.joran.spi.Interpreter@11:19 - RuntimeException in Action for tag [encoder] java.lang.NullPointerException at java.lang.NullPointerException at  at ch.qos.logback.classic.pattern.ThrowableProxyConverter.start(ThrowableProxyConverter.java:75) 
at  at ch.qos.logback.core.pattern.ConverterUtil.startConverters(ConverterUtil.java:37) 
at  at ch.qos.logback.core.pattern.ConverterUtil.startConverters(ConverterUtil.java:33) 
at  at ch.qos.logback.core.pattern.PatternLayoutBase.start(PatternLayoutBase.java:89) 
at  at ch.qos.logback.classic.encoder.PatternLayoutEncoder.start(PatternLayoutEncoder.java:28)