JBoss Logging

We will shortly discuss where JBoss EAP / WildFly logs are located. The location of JBoss logs basically depends on which mode you are using to start the application server. View logs in standalone mode When running in standalone mode, JBoss logs are located in the standalone/log folder: As you can see, the currently running … Read more

in WildFly and JBoss EAP Loggers are used to log messages by defining a category generally consisting of a package name or a class name. In short, they can let you customize the logging events for a package or Class name. We will see 5 Loggers which I’ve found pretty useful in my work. org.jboss.remoting.remote … Read more

This article shows how to configure a JBoss Logging Handler for a specific package (category) to be written in a separate log file. Sometimes you need to add verbosity to a specific JBoss/WildFly package but you don’t want to mix it with the application server’s logs. So, in order to do that, you need to … Read more

This article is now obsolete. We recommend checking these resources to learn bout log4j configuration with JBoss / WildFly: How to use Log4j2 in your WildFly applications Using Log4J with WildFly and JBoss EAP Have you got exceptions when tried to configure log4j at application level ? this is due to the fact that JBoss ships … Read more

A Custom logging handler allows you to define a custom destination for your WildFly / JBoss AS 7 server logging events. You would typically define a custom hanlder to log to a Socket, a Database, to a remote location or a JMS Queue. In this tutorial we will learn how to base your custom handler … Read more

Many of you have heard about Camel rule based and mediation engine. On this tutorial we will show how to unleash its power to handle the logs from WildFly 9! First of all, if you need a quickstart tutorial about Camel here is an Hello World Camel quickstart In order to trigger Came routes, we will … Read more

A common requirement for many applications is to use a specific logger to trace log events. In this recipe we will learn how to use Logging profiles to define a logger that can be activated at application level. This tutorial can be used with JBoss EAP 6.2 (and higher) and WildFly application server. Let’s start … Read more

The amount of logging is controlled by categories. Categories are named entities, which follow a hierarchical naming rule similar to Java packages. For example, the category named com.sample is a parent of the category named com.sample.Test . Similarly, java is a parent of java.util and an ancestor of java.util.Vector. Let’s see some samples of categories: … Read more

This article discusses how to use the Log4j 1.x with WildFly / JBoss EAP applications. We will show the basic configuration steps and we will deploy a sample application on WildFly. Log4j 1.x has reached EOL Please note that log4j 1.x is no longer supported by the Apache Software Foundation. While it may still function … Read more

This tutorial has been written for a deprecated version of JBoss AS. We recommend checking the list of JBoss Logging tutorials for an updated list of articles. In this short tutorial we will show how to use log4j on JBoss AS 6 to produce custom application logging. In order to configure your application to use … Read more