Good evening

there are several discussions about how to disable appenders in logback and there are various suggestions - up to commenting them out in the XML

But all suggestions are just workarounds that could be solved much more elegantly if appenders would offer a simple enabled=true/false flag.

Could you please consider adding such a flag?

The most useful advantages are:

• log files would not even be created on the disk for disabled appenders
• this makes the analysis much clearer and easier
• we do not open logfiles just to see that they just have the header but no useful information

Maybe an enabled=true/false flag would even give a cool additional benefit: It could be that the logback performance becomes even more powerful because the disabled elements can be removed by the optimizer  

Thanks a lot, kind regards,
Thomas