Gradle Effective Implementations Guide - Second Edition

Using logging

In Chapter 1 , Starting with Gradle, we discussed several command-line options that we can use to show either more or fewer log messages when we run a Gradle build. These messages were from the Gradle internal tasks and classes. We used a println method in our Gradle build scripts to see some output, but we can also use Gradle's logging mechanisms to have a more customizable way to define logging messages.

Gradle supports several logging levels that we can use for our own messages. The level of our messages is important as we can use the command-line options to filter the messages for log levels.

The following table shows the log levels that are supported by Gradle:

Level	Used for
DEBUG	Debug messages
INFO	Information messages ...