Apache ActiveMQ Artemis uses the JBoss Logging framework to do its logging and is configurable via the logging.properties
file found in the configuration directories. This is configured by Default to log to both the console and to a file.
There are 6 loggers available which are as follows:
: Global Configuration Properties
Firstly, if you want to enable logging on the client side you need to include the JBoss logging jars in your library. If you are using maven add the following dependencies.
<dependency> <groupId>org.jboss.logmanager</groupId> <artifactId>jboss-logmanager</artifactId> <version>1.5.3.Final</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.apache.activemq</groupId> <artifactId>activemq-core-client</artifactId> <version>1.0.0.Final</version> </dependency>
There are 2 properties you need to set when starting your java program, the first is to set the Log Manager to use the JBoss Log Manager, this is done by setting the -Djava.util.logging.manager
property i.e. -Djava.util.logging.manager=org.jboss.logmanager.LogManager
The second is to set the location of the logging.properties file to use, this is done via the -Dlogging.configuration
for instance -Dlogging.configuration=file:///home/user/projects/myProject/logging.properties
.
Note
The value for this needs to be valid URL
The following is a typical logging.properties for a client
# Root logger option loggers=org.jboss.logging,org.apache.activemq.artemis.core.server,org.apache.activemq.artemis.utils,org.apache.activemq.artemis.journal,org.apache.activemq.artemis.jms,org.apache.activemq.artemis.ra # Root logger level logger.level=INFO # Apache ActiveMQ Artemis logger levels logger.org.apache.activemq.artemis.core.server.level=INFO logger.org.apache.activemq.artemis.utils.level=INFO logger.org.apache.activemq.artemis.jms.level=DEBUG # Root logger handlers logger.handlers=FILE,CONSOLE # Console handler configuration handler.CONSOLE=org.jboss.logmanager.handlers.ConsoleHandler handler.CONSOLE.properties=autoFlush handler.CONSOLE.level=FINE handler.CONSOLE.autoFlush=true handler.CONSOLE.formatter=PATTERN # File handler configuration handler.FILE=org.jboss.logmanager.handlers.FileHandler handler.FILE.level=FINE handler.FILE.properties=autoFlush,fileName handler.FILE.autoFlush=true handler.FILE.fileName=activemq.log handler.FILE.formatter=PATTERN # Formatter pattern configuration formatter.PATTERN=org.jboss.logmanager.formatters.PatternFormatter formatter.PATTERN.properties=pattern formatter.PATTERN.pattern=%d{HH:mm:ss,SSS} %-5p [%c] %s%E%n