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