Simple Logging Facade for Java (abbreviated SLF4J) – acts as a facade for different logging frameworks (e.g. java.util.logging, logback, Log4j). It offers a generic API making the logging independent ...

If the only change you need to make to logging is to set the levels of various loggers then you can do that in application.properties using the "logging.level" prefix, e.g.

See Using JConsole to Monitor Applications for additional details on using JConsole to set the java.util.logging level of a Java application. Adjusting the Logging Level via VisualVM VisualVM is ...