Log4j2 Async Logger Not Logging Anything

Question

I am trying to implement an Async Logger along with a Spring Boot Application. My log4j2.xml (I have it under /src/resources/ directory) looks like:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Configuration status="ALL">
    <Appenders>
        <Console name="CONSOLE" target="SYSTEM_OUT">
            <PatternLayout pattern="%d %-5p [%t] %C{2} (%F:%L) - %m%n" />
        </Console>
        <!-- Generate rolling log for router with per hour interval policy -->
        <RollingFile name="ProcessorRollingFile" fileName="C:/logs/">
            <PatternLayout>
                <pattern>%d{ISO8601} [%t] %p %c %L - %m%n</pattern>
            </PatternLayout>
            <Policies>
                <TimeBasedTriggeringPolicy interval="1" modulate="true"/>
            </Policies>
            <DefaultRolloverStrategy max="24" />
        </RollingFile>
        <!-- Register Async appender -->
        <Async name="AsyncRollingFile">
            <AppenderRef ref="ProcessorRollingFile" />
        </Async>
    </Appenders>
    <Loggers>
        <AsyncLogger name="com.gtt.gcas" level="all" additivity="false" includeLocation="true">
            <AppenderRef ref="AsyncRollingFile" />
        </AsyncLogger>
    </Loggers>
</Configuration>

I have written a generic class, that can be called from other classes to log stuff. I wish to expand on it later, right now its very basic.

package com.gtt.gcas.logging;

import org.apache.logging.log4j.Level;
import org.apache.logging.log4j.LogManager;
import org.apache.logging.log4j.Logger;

public class GCasLogging {
    
    private static Level LOG_LEVEL = Level.ALL;
    
    public static Logger logger = LogManager.getLogger(GCasLogging.class);
    

    /**
     * @return the lOG_LEVEL
     */
    public static Level getLogLevel() {
        return LOG_LEVEL;
    }
    

    /**
     * @param lOG_LEVEL the lOG_LEVEL to set
     */
    public static void setLogLevel(Level logLevel) {
        LOG_LEVEL = logLevel;
    }
}

And I am using the above class like so:

package com.gtt.gcas.preload;

import org.apache.logging.log4j.LogManager;
import org.apache.logging.log4j.Logger;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.boot.CommandLineRunner;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;

import com.gtt.gcas.employee.repository.EmployeeRepository;
import com.gtt.gcas.logging.NCaasLogging;
import com.gtt.trial.employee.pojo.Employee;

@Component
class LoadDatabase implements CommandLineRunner {

    EmployeeRepository employeeRepository;

    @Autowired
    public LoadDatabase(EmployeeRepository employeeRepository) {
        this.employeeRepository = employeeRepository;
    }



    @Bean
    void initDatabase() {
        
        Logger logger = NCaasLogging.logger;
        
        Employee employee = new Employee("Bilbo Baggins", "burglar");
        
        logger.info("One Employee Added.");
        
        employeeRepository.save(employee);
        
        employee = new Employee("Frodo Baggins", "thief");
        
        logger.info("Second Employee Added.");
    }

    @Override
    public void run(String... args) throws Exception {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub

    }
}

My dependencies section in the pom.xml is like:

<dependencies>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.session</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-session-core</artifactId>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-devtools</artifactId>
        <scope>runtime</scope>
        <optional>true</optional>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
        <scope>test</scope>
    </dependency>
    <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.springframework.boot/spring-boot-starter-data-jpa -->
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-jpa</artifactId>
    </dependency>
    <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.springframework.boot/spring-boot-starter-log4j2 -->
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-log4j2</artifactId>
    </dependency>
    <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.lmax/disruptor -->
    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.lmax</groupId>
        <artifactId>disruptor</artifactId>
        <version>4.0.0.RC1</version>
    </dependency>
    
    <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/javax.persistence/persistence-api -->
    <dependency>
        <groupId>javax.persistence</groupId>
        <artifactId>persistence-api</artifactId>
        <version>1.0.2</version>
    </dependency>

    <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.springframework.data/spring-data-jpa -->
    <!-- This has vulnerability CVE-2022-21724 -->
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.data</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-data-jpa</artifactId>
    </dependency>
    
    <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.h2database/h2 -->
    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.h2database</groupId>
        <artifactId>h2</artifactId>
    </dependency>
    
</dependencies>

But the problem is, it does not create any logs. The folder C:\logs does not even get created, let alone the files under it.

Please help.