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Troubleshooting Tomcat using log files

Troubleshooting Tomcat using log files

  • We have already seen how to troubleshoot tomcat instance based on the catalina.out log
  • By default tomcat writes some different logs as defined in the catalina script into the logs directory
  • Here we can see some other logs
    • localhost.YYYY-MM-DD.log
      • This log contains information about the server and the application on that server
      • We can see information like contextInitialized() and contextDestroyed()
      • Everytime we start or stop applications will be logged here as the context Initialized or Destroyed
    • localhost_access_log.YYYY-MM-DD.txt
      • This log contains information about the access from clients to our web application
      • Here we can see each and every action took place while navigating through the client. We can see the activities done through the client.
      • From this log we can log how many users accessing what information.
    • host-manager.YYYY-MM-DD.log
      • This log will say how and when the HostManager is accessed from the GUI
    • manager.YYYY-MM-DD.log
      • This log will say how and when the Manager App is accessed from the GUI

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