Springboot with Elasticsearch 5.0 client - Log4j2 errors

Please add dependencies

1. log4j-api
2. log4j-core
3. log4j-slf4j-impl

Currently the latest version is 2.8.

You can remove the log4j-over-slf4j dependency, this is for the old Log4j 1.2.

What if you have your dependency as this with the version :

<dependency>    <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>    <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-log4j2</artifactId>    <version>1.2.3.RELEASE</version></dependency>

Source

I am using spring boot with ES client.Try the following dependencies

<dependencies>        <dependency>            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>        </dependency>        <!--elastic search client-->        <dependency>            <groupId>org.elasticsearch.client</groupId>            <artifactId>transport</artifactId>            <version>5.0.1</version>        </dependency>        <!--log 4j-->        <dependency>            <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>            <artifactId>log4j-api</artifactId>            <version>2.6.2</version>        </dependency>    </dependencies> 

Also in the properties in your pom.xml add the following

<properties>        <elasticsearch.version>5.0.0</elasticsearch.version></properties>