Logging

Logging in Hawk is done through the Logback library. The specific logback.xml file is part of the org.eclipse.hawk.service.server.logback plugin fragment. If you need to edit it, it is located in the plugins/org.eclipse.hawk.service.server.logback_<HAWK RELEASE> folder from the main directory of the server.

A typical configuration with Hawk logging at the DEBUG level, with time-based rolling and all messages going to the hawk.log file would look as follows:

<configuration>
    <appender name="STDOUT" class="ch.qos.logback.core.ConsoleAppender">
        <layout class="ch.qos.logback.classic.PatternLayout">
            <Pattern>
                %d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss} [%thread] %-5level %logger{36} -
                %msg%n
            </Pattern>
        </layout>
    </appender>

    <appender name="FILE"
        class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.RollingFileAppender">
        <file>hawk.log</file>
        <encoder class="ch.qos.logback.classic.encoder.PatternLayoutEncoder">
            <Pattern>
                %d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss} [%thread] %-5level %logger{36} - %msg%n
            </Pattern>
        </encoder>

        <rollingPolicy class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.TimeBasedRollingPolicy">
            <!-- rollover daily -->
            <fileNamePattern>mylog-%d{yyyy-MM-dd}.%i.txt</fileNamePattern>
            <maxHistory>60</maxHistory>
        </rollingPolicy>
    </appender>

    <logger name="org.eclipse.jetty" level="warn" additivity="false">
        <appender-ref ref="STDOUT" />
    </logger>

    <logger name="ch.qos.logback" level="error" additivity="false">
        <appender-ref ref="STDOUT" />
    </logger>

    <logger name="org.apache.shiro" level="error" additivity="false">
        <appender-ref ref="STDOUT" />
    </logger>

    <!-- Change to "error" if Hawk produces too many messages for you -->
    <logger name="org.eclipse.hawk" level="debug" additivity="false">
        <appender-ref ref="STDOUT" />
        <appender-ref ref="FILE" />
    </logger>

    <root level="debug">
        <appender-ref ref="STDOUT" />
    </root>
</configuration>