A blog post about creating a basic Log4j2 configuration. It gives an example configuration file explaining each element: appenders, layouts, patterns, loggers and how log levels work. In addition, a maven configuration pom.xml file is also provided to demonstrate how to set up dependencies for log4j2. This will help anybody starting out with Log4j or those people wanting to migrate from Log4j 1.x. There is a place for comments to allow people to ask questions as well. After reading this blog post the reader will be comfortable understanding all basic concepts and entities in Log4j2 and how to configure them in a minimal use-case