Logging

Owned by Mathias Edblom (Unlicensed)
Last updated: Mar 26, 2020 by Boris Berenberg - Atlas Authority (Unlicensed)
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Temporary Logging

  1. Go to JIRA Administration>System>Logging and profiling

  2. Under Default Loggers, click "configure logging level for another package"

  3. For Package name enter com.riadalabs.jira.plugins.notificationassistant

  4. For Logging Level select DEBUG

  5. Press Add to save

  6. Email log output will now be added to JIRA's own atlassian-jira.log file

  7. To find the impacted lines, you can grep for c.r.j.p.n

Permanent Logging

Add the following to your <JIRA INSTALL DIRECTORY>/atlassian-jira/WEB-INF/classes/log4j.properties file. Changes to this file require a restart of Jira for the changes to take effect.

# ---------------------
#
#  NAFJ LOGGING STARTS
#

# Email logger
#
log4j.appender.NAFJEmailLog=com.atlassian.jira.logging.JiraHomeAppender
log4j.appender.NAFJEmailLog.File=nafj-email.log
log4j.appender.NAFJEmailLog.MaxFileSize=20480KB
log4j.appender.NAFJEmailLog.MaxBackupIndex=5
log4j.appender.NAFJEmailLog.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.NAFJEmailLog.layout.ConversionPattern=%d %t %p [%c{4}] %m%n
log4j.appender.NAFJEmailLog.Threshold=INFO

# Notification Manager logger
#
log4j.appender.NAFJManagerLog=com.atlassian.jira.logging.JiraHomeAppender
log4j.appender.NAFJManagerLog.File=nafj-manager.log
log4j.appender.NAFJManagerLog.MaxFileSize=20480KB
log4j.appender.NAFJManagerLog.MaxBackupIndex=5
log4j.appender.NAFJManagerLog.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.NAFJManagerLog.layout.ConversionPattern=%d %t %p [%c{4}] %m%n
log4j.appender.NAFJManagerLog.Threshold=INFO

#
# add entries for all NAFJ packages
#
log4j.logger.com.riadalabs.jira.plugins.notificationassistant.NotificationEmailHandlerImpl=INFO, NAFJEmailLog
log4j.additivity.com.riadalabs.jira.plugins.notificationassistant.NotificationEmailHandlerImpl=false
log4j.logger.com.riadalabs.jira.plugins.notificationassistant.NotificationManagerImpl=INFO, NAFJManagerLog
log4j.additivity.com.riadalabs.jira.plugins.notificationassistant.NotificationManagerImpl=false

#
#  NAFJ LOGGING ENDS
#
# --------------------

The logs will be at:

  • <JIRA_HOME>/log/nafj-email.log
  • <JIRA_HOME>/log/nafj-manager.log