Logging in gradle plugin

Is there even after 3 years, no way of running other slf4j implementations in a custom gradle plugin ?

I want to log a lot in debug level, but I don’t wanna see all that gradle internal debug stuff when switching log level to debug. Is there any way to configure it like one would do in a log4j or logback configuration like this ?

<configuration>
  <appender name="STDOUT" class="ch.qos.logback.core.ConsoleAppender">
    <encoder>
      <pattern>%d{HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%thread] %-5level %logger{36} - %msg%n</pattern>
    </encoder>
  </appender>

  <logger name="com.example" level="DEBUG" />

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