title: What does “status” mean in Log4j2 configuration?
body: <p>I just have finished adjustment of log4j2.xml configuration file and spotted something I don't really understand. So what is <code>&lt;Configuration status=&quot;SOME_STATUS_HERE&quot;&gt;</code>?</p>
  <p>Almost in all examples here :
  <a href="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/manual/configuration.html" rel="noreferrer">http://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/manual/configuration.html</a>
  folks from Apache added status to configuration.</p>
  <p>For example here is the first one:</p>
  <pre class="lang-xml prettyprint-override"><code>&lt;?xml version=&quot;1.0&quot; encoding=&quot;UTF-8&quot;?&gt;
  &lt;Configuration status=&quot;WARN&quot;&gt; &lt;!--status=&quot;WARN&quot; - what is this???--&gt; 
   
   &lt;Appenders&gt;
    &lt;Console name=&quot;Console&quot; target=&quot;SYSTEM_OUT&quot;&gt;
     &lt;PatternLayout pattern=&quot;%d{HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%t] %-5level %logger{36} - %msg%n&quot;/&gt;
    &lt;/Console&gt;
   &lt;/Appenders&gt;
  
   &lt;Loggers&gt;
    &lt;Root level=&quot;error&quot;&gt;
     &lt;AppenderRef ref=&quot;Console&quot;/&gt;
    &lt;/Root&gt;
   &lt;/Loggers&gt;
  
  &lt;/Configuration&gt;
  </code></pre>