Stop Digging Through Logs. Here’s How to Create Precision Logging for AEM GraphQL APIs.

Toss those logzilla 🦖! Your arrow keys didn’t sign up for an endless workout just to find one tiny timestamp.

What if I told you there’s an efficient way to analyze your AEM GraphQL API logs and skip those laggy debug hunt?

Yes, really. Imagine having clear insights into every transactions— without the other logs. With detailed logging for your AEM GraphQL APIs, you can:

• Easily Monitor the flow of data moving to and from your APIs, both inbound and outbound.
• Quickly identify and resolve errors or performance bottlenecks.
• Gain insights to fine-tune your GraphQL queries for maximum efficiency.

In this article, I’ll walk you through how I setup separate logs in Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) to make this possible.

Let’s dive in!

Prerequisites

• AEM Local Author, Publish and Dispatcher Setup. (Optional) You can proceed just an Author Instance Only.
• Basic understanding in AEM Web Console helps but isn’t mandatory.

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