WildFly Cookbook

Chapter 4. Managing the Logging Subsystem with the CLI

In this chapter, you will cover the following topics:

• Creating a file-handler logging
• Creating a periodic-rotating file-handler
• Creating a size-rotating file-handler
• Defining asynchronous handlers
• Creating a syslog-handler
• Listing and reading log files
• Using a different logging implementation

Introduction

The logging subsystem is where you can configure the information statements of WildFly and your application, for debugging and auditing purposes.

WildFly comes with a default configuration, which can be found in the configuration folder of both the standalone and domain directories. The default configuration automatically logs the information on the console and on a file named server.log.

As you will ...