How to access JIRA server logs ?

Enable logging in QMetry

Navigate to Setting ->System -> Logging and Profiling tab
Enable SQL Loggings for SQL log & SQL dump logs
Scroll the same page below to go to the Default Loggers section click on Configure link
Enter Package name as “com.atlassian.qtm” and Logging level as “Debug”. Click on Add.
In Default Loggers search for the following Package Name and click on “Trace” for the below 3 packages:
- net.java.ao.sql
- net.java.ao.schema.SchemaGenerator
- net.java.ao
Then, go to QMetry → Configuration → Advance Setting: Logging. Set to "Enable"
Once these settings are changed, reproduce the issue on your JIRA instance, so that traces are logged.

Navigate to Setting ->System -> Troubleshooting and Support Tools tab
Go to the create support zip tab
- For Server: Click on the create zip button and download the logs as shown in the below screenshot:
- For Datacenter: Click on the create zip button for all the nodes and download the logs as shown in the below screenshot:

Alternatively, you can opt for the below option:

Go to the directory where you have installed JIRA on your server. Fetch the JIRA logs & share atlassian-jira.log and Catalina log files with QMetry Support.
For UNIX server: If the directory name is JIRA. You can access logs at JIRA/logs/catalina.out and JIRA/home/log/atlassian-jira.log. In case you do not find the files, trigger the below commands in the UNIX terminal which would fetch the list of logs files path.
- find / -name "atlassian-jira.log" 2>/dev/null
- find / -name "catalina.out" 2>/dev/null
For Windows server : You can access logs from C:\Program Files\Atlassian\JIRA\logs\catalina<Date>.log and C:\Program Files\Atlassian\Application Data\JIRA\log\atlassian-jira.log

Once the logs are provided and the issue is resolved, go the Default Loggers search for the following package and click on “Debug” for all three of them.
- net.java.ao.sql
- net.java.ao.schema.SchemaGenerator
- net.java.ao
Go to QMetry → Configuration → Advance Setting : Logging. Set to "Disable". NOTE: The Enabled setting generates more verbose logging. If this is not reverted to "Disabled", it can affect performance and quickly fill up JIRA server logs directory.