Ok, I figured this out. I'm doing this in spring which uses logback as the default logger. For this setup, the setting is: logging.level.org.apache.cayenne.log.JdbcEventLogger=WARN
This applies to other settings too. For example: logging.level.org.apache.cayenne.util = DEBUG logging.level.org.apache.cayenne = INFO So, you change log4j.logger to logging.level Rob > On 1 Feb 2026, at 21:42, John Huss <[email protected]> wrote: > > The correct property name is this: > > log4j.logger.org.apache.cayenne.log.JdbcEventLogger=WARN > > Otherwise, you can do it programmatically for log4j too. > > Logger.getLogger(JdbcEventLogger.class).setLevel(Level.WARN); > > > On Sun, Feb 1, 2026 at 9:34 AM Robert A. Decker <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I'm on cayenne 4.2 running in spring. >> >> I'm building my server runtime in code so that I can have my own pk >> generator (see below). >> >> I have the following application property which seems to be ignored: >> log4j.logger.org.apache.cayenne.access.QueryLogger = WARN >> >> Since I'm building the runtime by hand do I also need to create my own >> logger? >> >> In my logfiles, it's logging at level INFO, with the logger interface >> org.apache.cayenne.log.JdbcEventLogger. >> 2026-02-01T16:24:50.986+01:00 INFO 13688 --- [ai] [ scheduling-1] >> org.apache.cayenne.log.JdbcEventLogger : === returned 0 rows. - took 18 >> ms. >> >> Rob >> >> cayenneRuntime = ServerRuntime.builder() >> .addConfig("cayenne-project.xml") >> .addModule(binder -> >> ServerModule.contributePkGenerators(binder) >> .put(MySQLAdapter.class.getName(), >> SmsPkGenerator.class)) >> .dataSource(DataSourceBuilder >> >> .url(environment.getProperty("org.apache.cayenne.datasource.jdbc.url")) >> >> .driver(environment.getProperty("org.apache.cayenne.datasource.jdbc.driver")) >> >> .userName(environment.getProperty("org.apache.cayenne.datasource.jdbc.username")) >> >> .password(environment.getProperty("org.apache.cayenne.datasource.jdbc.password")) >> >> .pool(Integer.parseInt(Objects.requireNonNull(environment.getProperty("org.apache.cayenne.datasource.jdbc.minConnections"))), >> >> Integer.parseInt(Objects.requireNonNull(environment.getProperty("org.apache.cayenne.datasource.jdbc.maxConnections")))) >> .build()) >> .build(); >>
