Log4j.us 🪵

I made this while working at Metabase. As the Head of Success Engineering, I was often tasked with helping customers reproduce various edge cases. As part of this, we often needed more logs. The classes I wanted to enable DEBUG logs for also often differed depending on the specific situation the customer was encountering.

💁 Did you know that log4j supports loading a configuration from an https URL? I didn’t.

So I built a site you can pass to -Dlog4j.configuration with dynamic log levels.

✅ Want to start a basic jar with console DEBUG logging? Cool.

java -Dlog4j.configuration=https://log4j.us/templates/consoledebug -jar app.jar

✅ Want to enable TRACE logging for a certain namespace? Cool.

java -Dlog4j.configuration=https://log4j.us/templates/consoledebug?trace=some.namespace -jar app.jar

I’ve been meaning to add other templates, but for now it just supports the basic template and a Metabase one.

If you’d like to add other templates, feel free to submit a pull request.