Are you getting any other log statements printed out to your 'out' console appender?
Given that you've set the root log level to DEBUG in your log4j configuration, you should be seeing a lot of log noise from Camel. If you don't, your container may not be picking up your log4j configuration file. Regards, *Raúl Kripalani* Apache Camel PMC Member & Committer | Enterprise Architect, Open Source Integration specialist | http://about.me/raulkripalani | http://www.linkedin.com/in/raulkripalani http://blog.raulkr.net | twitter: @raulvk On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 5:04 PM, mckinnonrob <rob.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > Claus Ibsen-2 wrote > > Are you sure the route pickup any messages to route? The log DSL will > > only log if there is messages. > > Yes I am sure. In my route the body is ultimately being placed on a queue, > CAMEL_FINAL, and all the messages are showing up there fine. > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://camel.465427.n5.nabble.com/DSL-Logging-not-outputting-to-the-logs-tp5744093p5744137.html > Sent from the Camel - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >