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Subject: Re: log4j 2.0 - About StatusLogger logging level and console output
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What he may really want is a way to register the console listener =
earlier - via a system property.

Ralph

On Aug 1, 2014, at 12:24 AM, Remko Popma <remko.popma@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.=20
>=20
> Sent from my iPhone
>=20
>> On 2014/08/01, at 16:15, Marco Cosentino <cosentino.ma@gmail.com> =
wrote:
>>=20
>> 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.
>>=20
>> Marco.
>>=20
>>> On 08/01/2014 12:04 AM, Remko Popma wrote:
>>> All you need to do is set status=3D"trace" in your log4j2.xml config =
file.
>>>=20
>>> So the beginning of your config looks like this:
>>> <Configuration status=3D"trace" ...
>>>=20
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>=20
>>>> On 2014/08/01, at 1:13, Marco Cosentino <cosentino.ma@gmail.com> =
wrote:
>>>>=20
>>>> 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".
>>>>=20
>>>> I thought that the mechanism was similar in log4j 2.x and =
apparently it should be by setting
>>>> log4j2.StatusLogger.level=3DDEBUG
>>>>=20
>>>> 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()).
>>>>=20
>>>> I found that there was a JMX listener registered so I disabled JMX =
beans with
>>>> log4j2.disable.jmx=3Dtrue
>>>> but still no luck: the messages don't appear in the console.
>>>>=20
>>>> I noticed though that the constructor might be the source of the =
problem:
>>>>=20
>>>>   private StatusLogger() {
>>>>       this.logger =3D new SimpleLogger("StatusLogger", Level.ERROR, =
false, true, false, false, Strings.EMPTY, null, PROPS,
>>>>           System.err);
>>>>       this.listenersLevel =3D Level.toLevel(DEFAULT_STATUS_LEVEL, =
Level.WARN).intLevel();
>>>>   }
>>>>=20
>>>> 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.
>>>>=20
>>>> 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)?
>>>>=20
>>>> Best,
>>>> Marco Cosentino
>>>>=20
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