<configuration>

  <appender name="LIOE" class="ch.qos.logback.core.FileAppender">
    <file>target/test-output/layoutInsteadOfEncoder.log</file>
    <append>true</append>
                
    <layout class="ch.qos.logback.classic.PatternLayout">
      <pattern>%msg%n</pattern>
    </layout>
  </appender>
        
  <root level="debug">
    <appender-ref ref="LIOE" />
  </root>
</configuration>