Log4j debug messages not going to IntelliJ console - intellij-idea

Question

I've got a springboot app using log4j2, and I cannot get logger.debug() messages to go to the console. I've added a log4j2.xml file (below) and am specifying the path to it in my VM options.. but its still not working. Am I missing something? Using log4j 2.17.1.
-Dlog4j2.configurationFile=/Users/home/log4j2.xml
and
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Configuration status="WARN">
<Appenders>
<Console name="Console" target="SYSTEM_OUT">
<PatternLayout pattern="%d{HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%t] %-5level %logger{36} - %msg%n"/>
</Console>
</Appenders>
<Loggers>
<Root level="debug">
<AppenderRef ref="Console"/>
</Root>
</Loggers>
</Configuration>
The following code block...
logger.info("Test info.")
logger.debug("Test Debug.")
logger.warn("Test warn.")
logger.error("Test error.")
results in the following console output
2023-02-15 11:34:02.322 INFO 27001 --- [app] c.b.HelloWorld : Test info.
2023-02-15 11:34:02.322 WARN 27001 --- [app] c.b.HelloWorld : Test warn.
2023-02-15 11:34:02.322 ERROR 27001 --- [app] c.b.HelloWorld : Test error.