Logback logger name with wildcard

Is it possible to use a wildcard for the logger name which matches different packages so we don't have to specify them all individually? So instead of writing

<logger name="com.package1.web" level="debug">...</logger>
<logger name="com.package2.web" level="debug">...</logger>
<logger name="com.package3.web" level="debug">...</logger>

I would like to only specify one entry somewhat like this:

<logger name="com.*.web" level="debug">...</logger>

If anyone knows about a way or also just that it's not a possibility i'd highly appreciate it

You can do that with Filters in the appender. Basically you have to set up a logger for com.* with DEBUG level, and apply a filter which DENIES all DEBUG (or lower) events which are NOT com.*.web.

I admit that it is quite convoluted.

Performance-wise it is also poor: DEBUG events are created for all com.* events, and only at the appender they are thrown away or kept.

Anyway, example logback.xml file:

<configuration scan="true" debug="true">
    <appender name="CONSOLE" class="ch.qos.logback.core.ConsoleAppender">
        <filter class="ch.qos.logback.core.filter.EvaluatorFilter">
            <evaluator class="ch.qos.logback.classic.boolex.GEventEvaluator">
                <expression>
                    !(e.loggerName ==~ "com\\..*\\.web") &amp;&amp;
                    DEBUG.toInt() >= e.level.toInt()
                </expression>
            </evaluator>
            <OnMismatch>NEUTRAL</OnMismatch>
            <OnMatch>DENY</OnMatch>
        </filter>
        <encoder>
            <pattern>%p [%d{HH:mm:ss,SSS}] %c - %m\n</pattern>
        </encoder>
    </appender>

    <logger name="com" level="DEBUG" />

    <root level="INFO">
        <appender-ref ref="CONSOLE" />
    </root>
</configuration>

Test code:

public void test() throws Exception{
    getLogger("com.package1.web").debug("some debug onto com.package1.web");
    getLogger("com.package2.web").debug("some debug onto com.package2.web");
    getLogger("com.package3.web").debug("some debug onto com.package3.web");
    getLogger("com.package1.web").info("some info onto com.package1.web");
    getLogger("com.package2.web").info("some info onto com.package2.web");
    getLogger("com.package3.web").info("some info onto com.package3.web");
    getLogger("com.package3.notweb").debug("some debug onto com.package3.notweb");
    getLogger("com.package3.notweb").info("some info onto com.package3.notweb");
}

public Logger getLogger(String loggerName) {
    return LoggerFactory.getLogger(loggerName);
}

Result:

DEBUG [12:30:46] com.package1.web - some debug onto com.package1.web
DEBUG [12:30:46] com.package2.web - some debug onto com.package2.web
DEBUG [12:30:46] com.package3.web - some debug onto com.package3.web
INFO [12:30:46] com.package1.web - some info onto com.package1.web
INFO [12:30:46] com.package2.web - some info onto com.package2.web
INFO [12:30:46] com.package3.web - some info onto com.package3.web
INFO [12:30:46] com.package3.notweb - some info onto com.package3.notweb

as you can see, DEBUG logs are written only for com.*.web.