Logging in GlassFish

When you deploy your application to GlassFish, your log statements are written to the server.log file. You can view this file from the GlassFish admin web page (by default running on port 4848) by navigating to Server | View Log Files, or you can just look at the file itself—it's found under your domain, for example, C:\adfessentials\glassfish3\glassfish\domains\domain1\logs\server.log.

Tip

The log lines are rather long—if you want a different format, you can create your own formatter class as described by user Kawo on the site Stack Overflow:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9609380/glassfish-3-how-do-you-change-the-default-logging-format

You can also redirect your log output to a syslog service as described by Markus Eisele on his blog:

http://blog.eisele.net/2012/07/glassfish-operations-log-notifications.html

GlassFish logging can be controlled by changing the logging.properties file in the config directory in your domain, for example, C:\adfessentials\glassfish3...