I just encountered the issue and couldn't figure out what was going wrong even after reading all the above and everything out there. What I did was
- Set root logger level to WARN
- Set package log level to DEBUG
Each logging implementation has it's own way of setting it via properties or via code(lot of help available on this)
Irrespective of all the above I would not get the logs in my console or my log file. What I had overlooked was the below...
All I was doing with the above jugglery was controlling only the production of the logs(at root/package/class etc), left of the red line in above image. But I was not changing the way displaying/consumption of the logs of the same, right of the red line in above image. Handler(Consumption) is usually defaulted at INFO, therefore your precious debug statements wouldn't come through. Consumption/displaying is controlled by setting the log levels for the Handlers(ConsoleHandler/FileHandler etc..) So I went ahead and set the log levels of all my handlers to finest and everything worked.
This point was not made clear in a precise manner in any place.
I hope someone scratching their head, thinking why the properties are not working will find this bit helpful.