Logging
You can customize the content of logs as well as enable audit logging.
Management Center uses Log4j 2 for its logging. By default, Management Center prints all logs except audit logs to standard output. This behavior is defined by the following Log4j 2 configuration file:
appender.console.type = Console
appender.console.name = STDOUT
appender.console.layout.type = PatternLayout
appender.console.layout.pattern = %d [%highlight{%5p}{FATAL=red, ERROR=red, WARN=yellow, INFO=green, DEBUG=magenta}] [%style{%t{1.}}{cyan}] [%style{%c{1.}}{blue}]: %m%n
appender.console.filter.threshold.type = ThresholdFilter
appender.console.filter.threshold.level = ${sys:hazelcast.mc.log.level:-all}
logger.hazelcast.name = com.hazelcast
logger.hazelcast.level = ${sys:hazelcast.mc.log.level:-error}
logger.hazelcast.additivity = false
logger.hazelcast.appenderRef.rolling.ref = STDOUT
logger.mc.name = com.hazelcast.webmonitor
logger.mc.level = ${sys:hazelcast.mc.log.level:-info}
logger.mc.additivity = false
logger.mc.appenderRef.rolling.ref = STDOUT
logger.jetty.name = org.eclipse.jetty
logger.jetty.level = ${sys:hazelcast.mc.log.level:-warn}
logger.jetty.additivity = false
logger.jetty.appenderRef.rolling.ref = STDOUT
logger.spring.name = org.springframework
logger.spring.level = ${sys:hazelcast.mc.log.level:-warn}
logger.spring.additivity = false
logger.spring.appenderRef.rolling.ref = STDOUT
logger.hibernatevalidator.name = org.hibernate.validator
logger.hibernatevalidator.level = ${sys:hazelcast.mc.log.level:-warn}
logger.hibernatevalidator.additivity = false
logger.hibernatevalidator.appenderRef.rolling.ref = STDOUT
logger.flywaydb.name = org.flywaydb
logger.flywaydb.level = ${sys:hazelcast.mc.log.level:-warn}
logger.flywaydb.additivity = false
logger.flywaydb.appenderRef.rolling.ref = STDOUT
logger.hikari.name = com.zaxxer.hikari
logger.hikari.level = ${sys:hazelcast.mc.log.level:-warn}
logger.hikari.additivity = false
logger.hikari.appenderRef.rolling.ref = STDOUT
# Otherwise every resolved exception is logged
logger.springerror.name = org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.ExceptionHandlerExceptionResolver
logger.springerror.level = ${sys:hazelcast.mc.log.level:-error}
logger.springerror.additivity = false
logger.springerror.appenderRef.rolling.ref = STDOUT
rootLogger.level = ${sys:hazelcast.mc.log.level:-info}
rootLogger.appenderRef.stdout.ref = STDOUTCustomizing the Logging Configuraton
To further customize the logging configuration, you can create a custom
Log4j configuration file and start Management Center with
the logging.config property.
For example, you can create a file named log4j2-custom.properties with the following
content and set logging level to DEBUG.
To use this file as the logging configuration, you would start Management Center with the
-Dlogging.config=/path/to/your/log4j2-custom.properties command line parameter:
appender.console.type = Console
appender.console.name = STDOUT
appender.console.layout.type = PatternLayout
appender.console.layout.pattern = %d [%highlight{%5p}{FATAL=red, ERROR=red, WARN=yellow, INFO=green, DEBUG=magenta}] [%style{%t{1.}}{cyan}] [%style{%c{1.}}{blue}]: %m%n
appender.console.filter.threshold.type = ThresholdFilter
appender.console.filter.threshold.level = ${sys:hazelcast.mc.log.level:-all}
rootLogger.level = debug
rootLogger.appenderRef.stdout.ref = STDOUTTo write log messages into rolling log files, you can use a similar Log4j configuration file:
appender.console.type=Console
appender.console.name=STDOUT
appender.console.layout.type=PatternLayout
appender.console.layout.pattern=%d [%highlight{${LOG_LEVEL_PATTERN:-%5p}}{FATAL=red, ERROR=red, WARN=yellow, INFO=green, DEBUG=magenta}] [%style{%t{1.}}{cyan}] [%style{%c{1.}}{blue}]: %m%n
appender.rolling.type=RollingFile
appender.rolling.name=RollingFile
appender.rolling.fileName=${sys:user.home}/mc-logs/mc.log
appender.rolling.filePattern=${sys:user.home}/mc-logs/mc.%d{yyyy-MM-dd}.log
appender.rolling.layout.type=PatternLayout
appender.rolling.layout.pattern=%d [%5p] [%t] [%c{.1}]: %m%n
appender.rolling.policies.type = Policies
appender.rolling.policies.time.type = TimeBasedTriggeringPolicy
rootLogger.level=info
rootLogger.appenderRef.stdout.ref=STDOUT
rootLogger.appenderRef.rolling.ref=RollingFileAudit Logging
To make it easier to examine suspicious activity and troubleshoot issues, you can use audit logging to keep a record of events that happen in Management Center such as user logins.
To enable audit logging, start Management Center with the hazelcast.mc.auditlog.enabled property set to true.
Log entries from the audit logging will be marked with the
hazelcast.auditlog logging category, abbreviated as h.auditlog in logs.
An example log entry looks like the following:
MC-2001 [Auth] you see in this example represents the log’s type.
Audit Logging Event Types
The following table lists the current log categories along with their types:
| Event Category | Log Type/Description |
|---|---|
Management Center Configuration Logs |
|
Cluster Configuration Logs |
|
Authentication Logs |
|
Scripting Logs |
|
Console Logs |
|
Map/Cache Logs |
|
Persistence Logs |
|
WAN Replication Logs |
|
CP Subsystem Logs |
|
Streaming Job Logs |
|
Writing Audit Logs to Rolling Files
To write audit logs to separate rolling log files, you can use a Log4j configuration file such as the following:
appender.console.type=Console
appender.console.name=STDOUT
appender.console.layout.type=PatternLayout
appender.console.layout.pattern=%d [%highlight{${LOG_LEVEL_PATTERN:-%5p}}{FATAL=red, ERROR=red, WARN=yellow, INFO=green, DEBUG=magenta}] [%style{%t{1.}}{cyan}] [%style{%c{1.}}{blue}]: %m%n
appender.audit.type=RollingFile
appender.audit.name=AuditFile
appender.audit.fileName=${sys:user.home}/mc-logs/audit.log
appender.audit.filePattern=${sys:user.home}/mc-logs/audit.%d{yyyy-MM-dd}.log
appender.audit.layout.type=PatternLayout
appender.audit.layout.pattern=%d [%5p] [%t] [%c{.1}]: %m%n
appender.audit.policies.type = Policies
appender.audit.policies.time.type = TimeBasedTriggeringPolicy
logger.audit.name=hazelcast.auditlog
logger.audit.level=info
logger.audit.additivity=false
logger.audit.appenderRef.audit.ref=AuditFile
rootLogger.level=info
rootLogger.appenderRef.stdout.ref=STDOUT