CF10 tomcat metrics logging

That’s a good question, Jan. I don’t find any that equates to it.

I wondered if perhaps it was a “property” that might be set in the runtime.cfc’s getruntimeproperty method, but according the API docs (more on that below), there is none listed that seems related. I tried to guess at a few, to no avail. Also, sadly, there is no function that returns what all the properties are (that can be set or gotten), so we have to trust the docs. (Besides the doc listing available methods, I also did a CFDUMP of the runtime CFC and see no such method to list all runtime properties.)

I will reach out to some others to see if anyone else might know an answer (to both whether there is a means to control it, or a means to get a list of all supported properties).

In the meantime, and in the vein of “teaching a person to fish”, if you or other readers may not have known how you might find an answer to that sort of question (“is the admin API able to do xyz?”), let me point out that you can find out much more on the API (than is documented in any CF docs), on your own, using a couple of tools that many never know about.

First, if you had a guess as to which CFC it might be, such as runtime.cfc, you could browse that using http://[servername]/CFIDE/adminapi/runtime.cfc. That would cause CF to show you the CFC browser, showing the available methods and CFCs in that CFC (or any CFC whose path/name you provide in the URL). Note that you do need to know the CF Admin or RDS password to see this. (A protection that can be removed by modifying the application.cfm in the CFIDE/componentutils/ directory that this tool uses.

Second, if the needed method or property was not in that CFC, and you wondered “what other CFCs are in the Admin API”, there is also a component package browser (related to that tool above), available at http://[server]/CFIDE/componentutils/componentlist.cfm, which will list all CFC packages (directories) on the entire server. To see just those for the Admin API, use this: http://[server]/CFIDE/componentutils/componentlist.cfm?package=CFIDE.adminapi.

Again, I looked through the various CFCs and their methods, and no others referred to metrics ( or logging, that seemed related to metrics logging). While a couple others also have support for “properties”, none listed metrics logging. But again, it could be that some may be the answer, but they don’t provide a way to dump all their supported properties, in case one of them may have been updated but the javadocs for the method just have not been updated.

Hope that’s helpful.

/charlie