I will try setting root level to ERROR. All the other config is as u
suggested. Will try to debug why MyClass DEBUG logs arent getting logged
when its logger level is DEBUG. Thanks for detailed description.
Jacob Kjome wrote:
>
>
> First, you are not setting the level of the appender, but that of the
> logger
> which can reference any given appender, including your named "Log1"
> appender.
> So, if you want ERROR level for all classes, then set the "root" logger
> level
> to ERROR.
>
> After that, you make a decision of which appenders you want logging to go
> to
> (disregarding level, as that is the job of the logger - except in regard
> to
> more advanced configuration where you can set appender level thresholds or
> use
> filters, but that's beyond our discussion here). If you want output of
> all
> classes (again, disregarding level) to go to the "Log1", then you provide
> a
> reference to "Log1" in the primordial "root" logger.
>
> After that, if you want to lower the level for specific loggers, you can
> specify those as you've done with "com.pkg.MyClass". Now all classes,
> including "com.pkg.MyClass" will log at the ERROR level, but
> "com.pkg.MyClass"
> will also provide DEBUG, INFO, and WARN (and SEVERE) logging as well.
>
> This is all very standard stuff. If you don't experience the above
> behavior,
> then I would suspect that the Log4j configuration you think you are using
> isn't being used at all. You might want to use...
>
> -Dlog4j.debug=true
>
> This will tell Log4j to report how it is being configured. You may find
> that
> some other configuration is being used instead of yours. Either that, or
> you
> are not describing what you want clearly enough.
>
>
> Jake
>
> On Fri, 8 Jun 2012 09:15:14 -0700 (PDT)
> aggarwal <akansha.agg.9@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> If I set the level of Log1 appender to DEBUG, then DEBUG logs of all the
>> classes including MyClass are getting logged. If I set it to ERROR, then
>> ERROR logs of all the classes including MyClass are getting logged. But
>> what
>> I want is - DEBUG logs of only MyClass and ERROR of rest all. Here, my
>> motive is to set DEBUG level logging for most important classes helping
>> in
>> debugging procedure.
>>
>>
>> <logger name="com.pkg.MyClass">
>> <level value="DEBUG" />
>> </logger>
>>
>> private final static Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(MyClass.class);
>>
>> This is how a logger is defined in my code. It was my mistake to replace
>> "com.pkg.MyClass" with "MyClass".
>>
>> Thanks for "additivity" and "priority" related suggestions.
>>
>> Actually, root isn't my concern here. No matter what the level of root
>> and
>> appender is, I want DEBUG logs of only MyClass.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Douglas E Wegscheid wrote:
>>>
>>>> I want MyClass logs of DEBUG level and all other classes of ERROR in
>>>> "log1.log" file as mentioned in logger "Log1".
>>>> ...
>>>> whereas if I set the level in appender
>>>> "Log1" to DEBUG, I do get the DEBUG logs of Myclass in log1.log.
>>>
>>> If you set the level of the Log1 appender to DEBUG, you say that you get
>>> the DEBUG logs of Myclass in log1.log. Isn't that what you want?
>>>
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