Re: feature request: loader should log where it found config files

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This discussion has moved to GitHub:
https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/4058

On Fri, Feb 27, 2026 at 11:24=E2=80=AFPM Yagnatinsky, Mark via log4j-user <
[email protected]> wrote:

> In several places in Loader, such as here:
>
> https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/blob/2.x/log4j-core/src/main/jav=
a/org/apache/logging/log4j/core/util/Loader.java#L94
> There's a message at trace level saying basically "Trying to find
> [FILENAME] using THINGY".
> This is very useful, because it lets you know all the places that log4j i=
s
> looking for config files.
> However, there's no good way to find which of these attempts succeeded.
> Earlier today I had to put a debug breakpoint inside this class to find
> out which log4j2.xml was getting loaded.
> It would be nice if successful attempts were logged, perhaps even at a
> level higher than trace.  (maybe debug??)
>
> Thoughts?
>
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