Ok. Take a look at the system properties section of the Configuration manual
page. There seem to be two settings. I'm not sure which to use:
Log4jDefaultStatusLevel or log4j2.StatusLogger.level.
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> On 2014/08/01, at 16:15, Marco Cosentino <cosentino...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Remko,
> thanks for the reply.
> I'd still like something which can be enabled through system preoperties and
> logs at very early stages, for example, where the config is read from.
>
> Marco.
>
>> On 08/01/2014 12:04 AM, Remko Popma wrote:
>> All you need to do is set status="trace" in your log4j2.xml config file.
>>
>> So the beginning of your config looks like this:
>> <Configuration status="trace" ...
>>
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>>
>>> On 2014/08/01, at 1:13, Marco Cosentino <cosentino...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>> I'm trying to get log4j 2.0 debug information printed out in the console
>>> but I couldn't manage to get them.
>>> In log4j 1.x you would set the system property "log4j.debug".
>>>
>>> I thought that the mechanism was similar in log4j 2.x and apparently it
>>> should be by setting
>>> log4j2.StatusLogger.level=DEBUG
>>>
>>> Still nothing, so I dug a little bit in the code and found that the
>>> StatusLogger logs its messages either to the listeners (if there's at least
>>> one) or to a SimpleLogger (logger) which is initialized in the constructor
>>> (method StatusLogger#logMessage()).
>>>
>>> I found that there was a JMX listener registered so I disabled JMX beans
>>> with
>>> log4j2.disable.jmx=true
>>> but still no luck: the messages don't appear in the console.
>>>
>>> I noticed though that the constructor might be the source of the problem:
>>>
>>> private StatusLogger() {
>>> this.logger = new SimpleLogger("StatusLogger", Level.ERROR, false,
>>> true, false, false, Strings.EMPTY, null, PROPS,
>>> System.err);
>>> this.listenersLevel = Level.toLevel(DEFAULT_STATUS_LEVEL,
>>> Level.WARN).intLevel();
>>> }
>>>
>>> The SimpleLogger is initialized using level ERROR therefore the isEnabled
>>> implementation in StatusLogger returns the logging level of this.logger
>>> which is always ERROR even if I wanted DEBUG.
>>>
>>> Would it make sense to use DEFAULT_STATUS_LEVEL to actually set the level
>>> into the SimpleLogger constructor?
>>> Why is it so hard to get debug messages showing up in the console (I mean
>>> disable JMX and set the property to DEBUG)?
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Marco Cosentino
>>>
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