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In this article, we’ll show you how to set up a separate log file for BigPicture debug data.

If you are getting get a sizable amount of BigPicture debug debugs data sent to atlassian-jira.log but would rather instead divert it to a dedicated log file, you can do it by manually changing the configuration of Jira’s log4j file. 

Steps

  1. Add the following snippet to your log4j.properties* file:

    Code Block
    log4j.appender.bigpicture=com.atlassian.jira.logging.JiraHomeAppender
log4j.appender.bigpicture.File=bigpicture.log
log4j.appender.bigpicture.MaxFileSize=20480KB
log4j.appender.bigpicture.MaxBackupIndex=5
log4j.appender.bigpicture.layout=com.atlassian.logging.log4j.NewLineIndentingFilteringPatternLayout
log4j.appender.bigpicture.layout.ConversionPattern=%d %p [%X{jira.mailserver}] %t %X{jira.username} %X{jira.request.id} %X{jira.request.assession.id} %X{jira.request.ipaddr} %X{jira.request.url} %m%n

log4j.logger.com.softwareplant = INFO, console, bigpicture
log4j.additivity.com.softwareplant = false AN ADDITIONAL BIG


  2. Restart your Jira instance.

This will create a separate bigpicture.log file for all logs from our app , or from the com.softwareplant package specifically).

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The log4.properties is located in “WEB-INF/classes/log4j.properties.” You can find this path by going to your Jira Administration > System > Logging and , profiling, and scrolling down to the “Default Loggers” section.

You can further configure the granularity of the log file by clicking on the “Configure logging level for another file” option , and choosing the desired logging levels.