Log4j2 logs are capturing java debug code into of the log4j2 code I enter

Question

Log4j2 logs are capturing java debug code into of the log4j2 code I enter like log.info or log.error. Can someone please help me in fixing this? Thanks.


 log4j2.xml
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <Configuration status="warn">
  <Properties>
    <Property name="basePath">./log4j2logs/</Property>
  </Properties>

<Appenders>
    <RollingFile name="fileLogger"
        fileName="${basePath}/logs.log"
        filePattern="${basePath}/app-%d{yyyy-MM-dd}.log">
        <PatternLayout>
            <pattern>[%-5level] %d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%t] %c{1} - %msg%n
            </pattern>
        </PatternLayout>
        <Policies>
            <TimeBasedTriggeringPolicy interval="1" modulate="true" />
            <SizeBasedTriggeringPolicy size="10MB" />
        </Policies>
        <!-- Max 10 files will be created everyday -->
        <DefaultRolloverStrategy max="10">
            <Delete basePath="${basePathr}" maxDepth="10">
                <!-- Delete all files older than 30 days -->
                <IfLastModified age="30d" />
            </Delete>
        </DefaultRolloverStrategy>
    </RollingFile>
</Appenders>
<Loggers>
    <Root level="info" additivity="false">
        <appender-ref ref="fileLogger" />
    </Root>
</Loggers>

log4j2.properties
   status = warn
name= RollingFileLogConfigDemo

# Log files location
property.basePath = /Users/geeky/OneDrive/eclipse-workspace/XOME/log4j2logs/

# RollingFileAppender name, pattern, path and rollover policy
appender.rolling.type = RollingFile
appender.rolling.name = fileLogger
appender.rolling.fileName= ${basePath}/logs.log
appender.rolling.filePattern= ${basePath}/app_%d{yyyyMMdd}.log.gz
appender.rolling.layout.type = PatternLayout
appender.rolling.layout.pattern = %d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS} %level [%t] [%l] - %msg%n
appender.rolling.policies.type = Policies

# RollingFileAppender rotation policy
appender.rolling.policies.size.type = SizeBasedTriggeringPolicy
appender.rolling.policies.size.size = 10MB
appender.rolling.policies.time.type = TimeBasedTriggeringPolicy
appender.rolling.policies.time.interval = 1
appender.rolling.policies.time.modulate = true
appender.rolling.strategy.type = DefaultRolloverStrategy
appender.rolling.strategy.delete.type = Delete
appender.rolling.strategy.delete.basePath = ${basePath}
appender.rolling.strategy.delete.maxDepth = 10
appender.rolling.strategy.delete.ifLastModified.type = IfLastModified

# Delete all files older than 30 days
appender.rolling.strategy.delete.ifLastModified.age = 30d

# Configure root logger
rootLogger.level = debug
rootLogger.appenderRef.rolling.ref = fileLogger





Login_and_Search.java
package webTests;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.sql.Timestamp;
import java.util.Date;
import org.apache.logging.log4j.LogManager;
import org.apache.logging.log4j.Logger;
import org.openqa.selenium.JavascriptExecutor;
import org.testng.Assert;
import org.testng.annotations.Test;
import org.testng.asserts.SoftAssert;

import com.sun.tools.javac.util.Log;

import base.TestBase;
import common.ScreenshotURL;
import webPageObjects.Login_Page;
import webPageObjects.Search;

public class Login_and_Search extends TestBase{


    static SoftAssert softAssert = new SoftAssert();
    final static Logger log = LogManager.getLogger(Log.class.getName());
    
    
    static String className = Login_and_Search.class.getSimpleName();
    static Date date1= new Date();
    static String originaltimestamp = new Timestamp(date1.getTime()).toString();
    static String timestamp = originaltimestamp.replace(':', 'x').substring(11);
    static String foldername = className+timestamp;
    static String errorname = "";

        
    @Test(groups= {"smoke", "regression"}, dataProvider = "getData") 
    public void loginSearch (String login, String password, String searchkeyword) throws IOException, InterruptedException
    {
        Login_Page loginpg = new Login_Page();
        loginpg.clickSignIn(webdriver);
        String signedinusername = loginpg.login(webdriver, login, password);
        Thread.sleep(5000);
        
        try{
            Assert.assertEquals(signedinusername, "Automation Tester");
            log.info("Verified sign in user.");
        } 
        catch(AssertionError e)
        { 
            log.error("Didn't login as Automation Tester.", e.getMessage());
            errorname = "didntloginasAutomationTester";
            ScreenshotURL.screenshotURL(webdriver, foldername, errorname);
            softAssert.fail();
        }
        

        
        Search search = new Search();
        boolean match = search.loginsearchfor6thhouseinresults(webdriver, searchkeyword);
        
        try{
            Assert.assertEquals(match,  true);
            log.info("Verified search results.");
        } 
        catch(AssertionError e)
        { 
            log.error("Didn't scroll down the list of search results.", e.getMessage());
            errorname = "didntscrollsearchresults";
            ScreenshotURL.screenshotURL(webdriver, foldername, errorname);
            softAssert.fail();
        }

        
           softAssert.assertAll();
    }

}

    <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

    <groupId>XOME</groupId>
    <artifactId>XOME</artifactId>
    <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>

    <name>XOME</name>
    <url>http://maven.apache.org</url>

    <properties>
        <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
    </properties>
    

    <build>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>3.0.0-M7</version>
                <configuration>
                    <groups>smoke, regression</groups>
                    <excludedGroups>P3</excludedGroups>
                    <testFailureIgnore>true</testFailureIgnore>
                        <suiteXmlFiles>
                            <suiteXmlFile>TestNG2.xml</suiteXmlFile>
                        </suiteXmlFiles>
                    <!--
                    <suiteXmlFiles>
                            <suiteXmlFile>${suiteXmlFile}</suiteXmlFile>
                        </suiteXmlFiles>
                        <properties>
                            <property>
                                <name>suitethreadpoolsize</name>
                                <value>2</value>
                            </property>
                        </properties>   
                          -->       
                    </configuration>
            </plugin>
            
            <!-- 
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>3.8.1</version>
                <configuration>
                    <source>1.8</source>
                    <target>1.8</target>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
             -->
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>3.10.1</version>
            </plugin>

                <!-- run mvn process-sources to get all dependencies copied into target/lib -->
            <plugin>
            <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
            <executions>
              <execution>
                <phase>process-sources</phase>
                <goals>
                  <goal>copy-dependencies</goal>
                </goals>
                <configuration>
                  <outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}/lib</outputDirectory>
                </configuration>
              </execution>
            </executions>
          </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>


    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
            <artifactId>selenium-chrome-driver</artifactId>
            <version>4.3.0</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
            <artifactId>selenium-firefox-driver</artifactId>
            <version>4.3.0</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
            <artifactId>guava</artifactId>
            <version>31.1-jre</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>3.3.0</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>3.10.1</version>
        </dependency>
        
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
            <artifactId>selenium-java</artifactId>
            <version>4.3.0</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>io.appium</groupId>
            <artifactId>java-client</artifactId>
            <version>8.1.1</version>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.poi</groupId>
            <artifactId>poi</artifactId>
            <version>5.0.0</version>
        </dependency>

        <!-- Need this also or else workbookfactory import can't be found -->   
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.poi</groupId>
            <artifactId>poi-ooxml</artifactId>
            <version>5.0.0</version>
        </dependency>


        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.testng</groupId>
            <artifactId>testng</artifactId>
            <version>7.6.0</version>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>3.0.0-M7</version>
        </dependency>



        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
            <artifactId>log4j-api</artifactId>
            <version>2.17.2</version>
        </dependency>
        
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
            <artifactId>log4j-core</artifactId>
            <version>2.17.2</version>
        </dependency>
        


    </dependencies>
</project>



    I'm getting logs like these in logs.log
    2022-06-28 18:58:47.652 DEBUG [main] [io.netty.buffer.ByteBufUtil.<clinit>(ByteBufUtil.java:99)] - -Dio.netty.maxThreadLocalCharBufferSize: 16384
2022-06-28 18:58:47.922 DEBUG [Forwarding newSession on session null to remote] [io.netty.channel.DefaultChannelId.<clinit>(DefaultChannelId.java:79)] - -Dio.netty.processId: 10075 (auto-detected)
2022-06-28 18:58:47.924 DEBUG [Forwarding newSession on session null to remote] [io.netty.util.NetUtil.<clinit>(NetUtil.java:136)] - -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack: false
2022-06-28 18:58:47.924 DEBUG [Forwarding newSession on session null to remote] [io.netty.util.NetUtil.<clinit>(NetUtil.java:137)] - -Djava.net.preferIPv6Addresses: false
2022-06-28 18:58:47.928 DEBUG [Forwarding newSession on session null to remote] [io.netty.util.NetUtilInitializations.determineLoopback(NetUtilInitializations.java:129)] - Loopback interface: lo0 (lo0, 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1%lo0)
2022-06-28 18:58:47.929 DEBUG [Forwarding newSession on session null to remote] [io.netty.util.NetUtil$SoMaxConnAction.run(NetUtil.java:191)] - Failed to get SOMAXCONN from sysctl and file /proc/sys/net/core/somaxconn. Default: 128
2022-06-28 18:58:47.931 DEBUG [Forwarding newSession on session null to remote] [io.netty.channel.DefaultChannelId.<clinit>(DefaultChannelId.java:101)] - -Dio.netty.machineId: ac:de:48:ff:fe:00:11:22 (auto-detected)
2022-06-28 18:58:47.972 DEBUG [AsyncHttpClient-1-2] [io.netty.buffer.AbstractByteBuf.<clinit>(AbstractByteBuf.java:63)] - -Dio.netty.buffer.checkAccessible: true
2022-06-28 18:58:47.972 DEBUG [AsyncHttpClient-1-2] [io.netty.buffer.AbstractByteBuf.<clinit>(AbstractByteBuf.java:64)] - -Dio.netty.buffer.checkBounds: true
2022-06-28 18:58:47.972 DEBUG [AsyncHttpClient-1-2] [io.netty.util.ResourceLeakDetectorFactory$DefaultResourceLeakDetectorFactory.newResourceLeakDetector(ResourceLeakDetectorFactory.java:196)] - Loaded default ResourceLeakDetector: io.netty.util.ResourceLeakDetector@6a7f9ac3
2022-06-28 18:58:47.988 DEBUG [AsyncHttpClient-1-2] [io.netty.util.Recycler.<clinit>(Recycler.java:85)] - -Dio.netty.recycler.maxCapacityPerThread: 4096
2022-06-28 18:58:47.988 DEBUG [AsyncHttpClient-1-2] [io.netty.util.Recycler.<clinit>(Recycler.java:86)] - -Dio.netty.recycler.ratio: 8
2022-06-28 18:58:47.988 DEBUG [AsyncHttpClient-1-2] [io.netty.util.Recycler.<clinit>(Recycler.java:87)] - -Dio.netty.recycler.chunkSize: 32
2022-06-28 18:58:47.988 DEBUG [AsyncHttpClient-1-2] [io.netty.util.Recycler.<clinit>(Recycler.java:88)] - -Dio.netty.recycler.blocking: false
2022-06-28 18:58:49.230 DEBUG [AsyncHttpClient-1-2] [io.netty.handler.codec.compression.Brotli.<clinit>(Brotli.java:38)] - brotli4j not in the classpath; Brotli support will be unavailable.
2022-06-28 18:58:49.349 DEBUG [main] [io.netty.util.internal.ThreadLocalRandom.newSeed(ThreadLocalRandom.java:214)] - -Dio.netty.initialSeedUniquifier: 0x37