Setting up logging

[mladams922 (Matthew L Adams)]

I hate to post this as I’m sure this has come up a ton of times before but I’m trying to write rules and I’m using logging to debug them. When I do a logDebug it logs to the openhab.log file but then I have to try to catch the messages I need in that log while tons of others pass by. I’d like to log from my rules into its own file. I can’t seem to find logging documentation. I’m sure it’s been talked about before but can someone just point me to the documentation or to any good information.

Thanks!

[sihui]

Logging Issue

agree w @guessed re the import. I use multiple logs for different zones in my house. So I have defined both an appender and a logger for each of those. For brevity, only a couple of examples. The appender sets the log file name, entry formatting and retention policy. Note that the logger references a specific appender to do its work and says to which (very loosely speaking) openhab logging “domain” the logger applies. In my case the “modules” are the log references files for each of the…

[mladams922 (Matthew L Adams)]

Awesome that worked perfectly! Thanks for the quick reply!