Tomcat - Pickup logging.properties while starting from Eclipse

  1. Goto "Servers" and double click the server you would like to log
  2. Click "Open launch configuration"
  3. Open the "Arguments" tab
  4. Add The following to the "VM arguments":

-Djava.util.logging.config.file=/usr/share/tomcat-8/conf/logging.properties
-Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager