Jetty - Enabling request logs

Whenever you start jetty using jetty.sh shell script located inside jetty's bin folder, the jetty will start with the below logs enabled defined inside /opt/jetty/start.ini file (defined using xml files) by default:

etc/jetty.xml

etc/jetty-annotations.xml

etc/jetty-deploy.xml

etc/jetty-webapps.xml

etc/jetty-contexts.xml

etc/jetty-testrealm.xml

Below is the snapshot of the /opt/jetty/start.ini file to show complete set of configuration files:

#===========================================================

# Configuration files.

# For a full list of available configuration files do

#   java -jar start.jar --help

#-----------------------------------------------------------

#etc/jetty-jmx.xml

etc/jetty.xml

etc/jetty-annotations.xml

# etc/jetty-ssl.xml

# etc/jetty-requestlog.xml

etc/jetty-deploy.xml

#etc/jetty-overlay.xml

etc/jetty-webapps.xml

etc/jetty-contexts.xml

etc/jetty-testrealm.xml

#===========================================================

As highlighted in the above configuration the request log xml file is commented by default. We just have to uncomment the same and restart jetty to enable request logs and you should be able to see the request logs generated in the below directory:

/opt/jetty/logs

$ ls -lt

total 48

-rw-rw-r-- 1 jetty jetty  165 Aug 21 13:54 2015_08_21.request.log