Can I configure startup and shutdown logs for Spring Boot applications?

For the ability to verify the startup and shutdown of our Spring Boot applications we want to configure a startup.log and shutdown.log capturing events that bootstrap and shutdown the application.

For startup everything up to:

Root WebApplicationContext: initialization completed in {x} ms

And for shutdown everything from:

Closing org.springframework.boot.context.embedded.AnnotationConfigEmbeddedWebApplicationContext@53bd8fca: startup date [Wed Aug 19 09:47:10 PDT 2015]; root of context hierarchy

to the end.

Is this something that is container specific? (Tomcat vs Jetty vs Undertow)

You can create an event listener that watches for ApplicationReadyEvent and ContextStoppedEvent and log whatever you want.

@Service
public class Foo {

    @EventListener
    public void onStartup(ApplicationReadyEvent event) { ... }

    @EventListener
    public void onShutdown(ContextStoppedEvent event) { .... }

}