AWS Elastic Beanstalk Application Logging with Logback

EDIT: Added Image (The problem looks like log files are not written)

I am running an spring mvc (NOT springboot) WAR file on AWS Elastic Beanstalk on a 'Tomcat 8.5 with Corretto 11 running on 64bit Amazon Linux 2/4.1.3' environment.

Everything is working as expected EXCEPT application logs that I write with slf4j/logback.

The following is my logback.xml configuration file

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<!DOCTYPE xml>
<configuration debug="true">
    <appender name="STDOUT" class="ch.qos.logback.core.ConsoleAppender">
        <encoder>
            <pattern>
                %d{yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ} [%thread] %-5level %logger{36} - %msg%n
            </pattern>
        </encoder>
    </appender>
    <appender name="APPLOG" class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.RollingFileAppender">
        <file>/var/log/java.log</file>
        <rollingPolicy class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.TimeBasedRollingPolicy">
            <FileNamePattern>/var/log/java_%d{yyyy-MM-dd}_%i.log</FileNamePattern>
            <!-- keep 14 days' worth of history -->
            <maxHistory>14</maxHistory>
            <timeBasedFileNamingAndTriggeringPolicy class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.SizeAndTimeBasedFNATP">
                <!-- or whenever the File size reaches 10MB -->
                <maxFileSize>10MB</maxFileSize>
            </timeBasedFileNamingAndTriggeringPolicy>
        </rollingPolicy>
        <encoder>
            <pattern>%d{yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ} [%thread][%X{remoteHost}] %-5level %c{1} - %msg%n</pattern>
            <!-- <pattern>%d %-5p %c{1} - %m%n</pattern> -->
        </encoder>
    </appender>
    <logger name="com.personal.service.layer.mongodb" level="INFO"
        additivity="false">
        <appender-ref ref="STDOUT" />
        <appender-ref ref="APPLOG" />
    </logger>

    <logger name="org.springframework" level="INFO"
        additivity="false">
        <appender-ref ref="STDOUT" />
        <appender-ref ref="APPLOG" />
    </logger>

    <logger name="spring.web" level="INFO" additivity="false">
        <appender-ref ref="STDOUT" />
        <appender-ref ref="APPLOG" />
    </logger>

    <root level="INFO">
        <appender-ref ref="STDOUT" />
        <appender-ref ref="APPLOG" />
    </root>

</configuration>

After searching google/stackoverflow, I have added an ebextensions folder with a config file to include my logs with the tail logs and bundle as follows:

files:
  "/opt/elasticbeanstalk/tasks/bundlelogs.d/applogs.conf" :
    mode: "000755"
    owner: root
    group: root
    content: |
      /var/log/*.log

  "/opt/elasticbeanstalk/tasks/taillogs.d/applogs.conf" :
    mode: "000755"
    owner: root
    group: root
    content: |
      /var/log/*.log

After some research online, I have tried some other combinations. For example, I have tried to set the log file in logback.xml as /var/app/current/logs/applog.log and in the conf files used /var/log/current/logs/*.log, instead of what is shown above, but they did not work either. So I feel like I am missing something about logging to AWS with Logback.

I am also open to (working) suggestions about logging with other something else (log4j, java logging, etc).

EDIT: Finally figured out the aws/eb mess, and was able to ssh to the environment. I do not see java.log created under the folder var/log (or any other folder to the matter).

Why would logback not be writing the logs? Is that logpath /var/log/java.log not usable?