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| </p></div><div class="chapter"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title"><a name="configuring-logging"></a>Chapter 20. Jetty Logging</h2></div></div></div><div class="toc"><p><b>Table of Contents</b></p><dl><dt><span class="section"><a href="configuring-logging.html#configuring-jetty-logging">Configuring Jetty Logging</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="default-logging-with-stderrlog.html">Default Logging with Jetty's StdErrLog</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="configuring-jetty-request-logs.html">Configuring Jetty Request Logs</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="example-logging-log4j.html">Example: Logging with Apache Log4j</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="example-logging-java-util-logging.html">Example: Logging with Java's java.util.logging via Slf4j</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="example-logging-java-util-logging-native.html">Example: Logging with Java's java.util.logging via | |
| JavaUtilLog</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="example-logging-logback.html">Example: Logging with Logback</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="example-slf4j-multiple-loggers.html">Example: Capturing Multiple Logging Frameworks with Slf4j</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="example-logging-logback-centralized.html">Example: Centralized Logging with Logback</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="jetty-dump-tool.html">Jetty Dump Tool</a></span></dt></dl></div><p>This chapter discusses various options for configuring logging.</p><div class="section"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="configuring-jetty-logging"></a>Configuring Jetty Logging</h2></div></div></div><div class="toc"><dl><dt><span class="section"><a href="configuring-logging.html#selecting-log-framework">Selecting the Log Framework</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="configuring-logging.html#configuring-jetty-stderrlog">The jetty-logging.properties file</a></span></dt></dl></div><p>Jetty provides logging via its own | |
| <code class="code">org.eclipse.jetty.util.log.Logger</code> layer, and does not natively | |
| use any existing Java logging framework. All logging events, produced via | |
| the Jetty logging layer, have a name, a level, and a message. The name is a | |
| FQCN (fully qualified class name) similar to how all existing Java logging | |
| frameworks operate.</p><p>Jetty logging, however, has a slightly different set of levels that it | |
| uses internally:</p><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term">WARN</span></dt><dd><p>For events serious enough to inform and log, but not | |
| fatal.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">INFO</span></dt><dd><p>Informational events.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">DEBUG</span></dt><dd><p>Debugging events (very noisy).</p></dd><dt><span class="term">IGNORE</span></dt><dd><p>Exception events that you can safely ignore, but useful for some | |
| people. You might see this level as DEBUG under some Java logging | |
| framework configurations, where it retains the | |
| <span class="emphasis"><em>ignore</em></span> phrase somewhere in the logging.</p></dd></dl></div><div xmlns:jfetch="java:org.eclipse.jetty.xslt.tools.JavaSourceFetchExtension" xmlns:fetch="java:org.eclipse.jetty.xslt.tools.SourceFetchExtension" xmlns:d="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:l="http://docbook.sourceforge.net/xmlns/l10n/1.0" xmlns:xslthl="http://xslthl.sf.net" xmlns:gcse="http://www.google.com" xmlns:date="http://exslt.org/dates-and-times" class="note" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;"><h3 class="title"><i class="icon-asterisk"></i> Note</h3><p>Jetty logging produces no FATAL or SEVERE events.</p></div><div class="section"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="selecting-log-framework"></a>Selecting the Log Framework</h3></div></div></div><p>Configure the Jetty logging layer via the | |
| <code class="code">org.eclipse.jetty.util.log.Log</code> class, following <a class="link" href="http://git.eclipse.org/c/jetty/org.eclipse.jetty.project.git/tree/jetty-util/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/util/log/Log.java" target="_top">these | |
| rules</a>.</p><div class="orderedlist"><ol class="orderedlist" type="1"><li class="listitem"><p>Load Properties</p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" type="disc"><li class="listitem"><p>First from a Classpath Resource called | |
| <code class="code">jetty-logging.properties</code> (if found).</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>Then from the <code class="code">System.getProperties()</code>.</p></li></ul></div></li><li class="listitem"><p>Determine the log implementation.</p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" type="disc"><li class="listitem"><p>If property | |
| <code class="literal">org.eclipse.jetty.util.log.class</code> is defined, | |
| load the class it defines as the logger implementation from the | |
| server classpath.</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>If the class <code class="code">org.slf4j.Logger</code> exists in server | |
| classpath, the Jetty implementation becomes | |
| <code class="code">org.eclipse.jetty.util.log.Slf4jLog</code>.</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>If no logger implementation is specified, default to | |
| <code class="code">org.eclipse.jetty.util.log.StdErrLog</code>.</p></li></ul></div></li></ol></div><div xmlns:jfetch="java:org.eclipse.jetty.xslt.tools.JavaSourceFetchExtension" xmlns:fetch="java:org.eclipse.jetty.xslt.tools.SourceFetchExtension" xmlns:d="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:l="http://docbook.sourceforge.net/xmlns/l10n/1.0" xmlns:xslthl="http://xslthl.sf.net" xmlns:gcse="http://www.google.com" xmlns:date="http://exslt.org/dates-and-times" class="note" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;"><h3 class="title"><i class="icon-asterisk"></i> Note</h3><p>You can create your own custom logging by providing an | |
| implementation of the <a class="link" href="http://download.eclipse.org/jetty/stable-9/apidocsorg/eclipse/jetty/util/log/Logger.html" target="_top">Jetty | |
| Logger API</a>. For an example of a custom logger, see <a class="link" href="http://git.eclipse.org/c/jetty/org.eclipse.jetty.project.git/tree/jetty-util/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/util/log/JavaUtilLog.java" target="_top">JavaUtilLog.java</a>.</p></div></div><div class="section"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="configuring-jetty-stderrlog"></a>The jetty-logging.properties file</h3></div></div></div><p>By default, the internal Jetty Logging discovery mechanism will load | |
| logging specific properties from a classpath resource called | |
| <code class="filename">jetty-logging.properties</code> and then initialize the | |
| Logging from a combination of properties found in that file, along with | |
| any System Properties.</p><p>A typical jetty-logging.properties file will include at least the | |
| declaration of which logging implementation you want to use by defining a | |
| value for the <code class="literal">org.eclipse.jetty.util.log.class</code> | |
| property.</p><p>Examples for various logging frameworks can be found later in this | |
| documentation.</p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" type="disc"><li class="listitem"><p>Default Logging with <a class="link" href="default-logging-with-stderrlog.html" title="Default Logging with Jetty's StdErrLog">Jetty's | |
| StdErrLog</a></p></li><li class="listitem"><p>Using <a class="link" href="example-logging-log4j.html" title="Example: Logging with Apache Log4j">Log4j via | |
| Slf4jLog</a></p></li><li class="listitem"><p>Using <a class="link" href="example-logging-logback.html" title="Example: Logging with Logback">Logback via | |
| Slf4jLog</a></p></li><li class="listitem"><p>Using java.util.logging via Slf4jLog</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>Using java.util.logging via Jetty's JavaUtilLog</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>Capturing <a class="link" href="example-slf4j-multiple-loggers.html" title="Example: Capturing Multiple Logging Frameworks with Slf4j">Multiple Logging Frameworks | |
| via Slf4jLog</a></p></li><li class="listitem"><p><a class="link" href="example-logging-logback-centralized.html" title="Example: Centralized Logging with Logback">Centralized | |
| Logging with Logback and Sfl4jLog</a></p></li></ul></div></div></div></div><script type="text/javascript"> | |
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