Best way to log in a route

[n999]

Hi

I have a route where I am adding a basic cLog between every component that does some work.

This doubles the amount of talend components on my canvas.

In the interest of saving screen real estate, I was wondering if there is a more succinct way of doing this. Can I use apache DSL at the start of the route to achieve the same goal?

Cheers

n  

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

I have just been chatting with the inventor of Apache Karaf and he recommended using Camel tracer + Decanter. Take a look at the link below and see if it meets your requirements. 

https://github.com/apache/karaf-decanter/blob/master/manual/src/main/asciidoc/user-guide/collectors.... 

[n999]

Hiya

Many thanks for the quick and "A list celebrity" response!

Looks v interesting. Looks quite low level. Makes the tradeoff between extra components vs bespoke extra-talend config a bit harder to call....I was hoping I could drop in something into a cConfig or cjavaDSLProcesser, etc to enable global logging.

Cheers for the post though - will read through

thanks

[Anonymous]

I said similar to him. He said that it really isn't a big deal to implement. Unfortunately I do not have a Karaf up and running at the moment, otherwise I would try it. If you have a spare one that you can experiment on, I'd recommend you give it a go. 

[Anonymous]

Did this method work for you when you tried it?

[n999]

Sorry - not had a chance to experiment. I think it's unlikely I will have time for a while. happy to accept as solution though...cheers

[n999]

Hi

Looking at this https://camel.apache.org/manual/latest/tracer.html it looks like a Tracer should work out of the box for Camel?

Also spotted this https://community.talend.com/t5/Architecture-Best-Practices-and/Improve-Camel-flow-monitoring/ta-p/1... that says 

"There is no request/exchange specific logging information out-of-the-box from Camel without increasing the log level to DEBUG"

Is this talking about the Tracer?

Does 

CamelContext.setTracing(true);

Not work OOTB with Talend?

cheers

[Anonymous]

I'm afraid I am not sure about this. I have not tried it. What results do you get when you try it?