Druid nodes will emit logs that are useful for debugging to the console. Druid nodes also emit periodic metrics about their state. For more about metrics, see [Configuration](../configuration/index.html#enabling-metrics). Metric logs are printed to the console by default, and can be disabled with `-Ddruid.emitter.logging.logLevel=debug`.
Druid uses [log4j2](http://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/) for logging. Logging can be configured with a log4j2.xml file. Add the path to the directory containing the log4j2.xml file (e.g. the _common/ dir) to your classpath if you want to override default Druid log configuration. Note that this directory should be earlier in the classpath than the druid jars. The easiest way to do this is to prefix the classpath with the config dir.
