I will show you how to enable logging in the MongoDB Java driver and also how to set and change the log level. The official mongoDB Java driver uses java.util.logging as its default logging framework or sl4j if the latter is present. It can be very useful to enable logging in the MongoDB drivers to trace how the driver is interacting with the database.

I originally published this post on my old blog in 2009. I’ve edited it a little for readability but left the contents unchanged, so it may be out of date and not reflect the current state of the pantheios library. I also haven’t been using pantheios for logging since about 2010, and have been using Boost.Log instead.

I recently ran into a requirements for retrofitting a logging library to an existing project. My first instinct was to throw Pantheios at it as I’ve used it before and It Just Worked. Unfortunately in this case, we needed the ability to log to more than two event sinks and it looked like this was getting a little awkward with Pantheios, which prompted me to look at Boost.Log.