Maven Debug Logging Like npm Silly | Generated by AI
Yes, Maven does have verbose logging similar to npm’s silly log level, though it uses different terminology.
In Maven, you can control logging verbosity with these flags:
-X or --debug - This is Maven’s equivalent to npm’s silly/verbose logging. It shows detailed debug output including:
- Full stack traces for errors
- Detailed plugin execution information
- Dependency resolution details
- Internal Maven processes
-e or --errors - Shows error stack traces (less verbose than debug)
-q or --quiet - Minimal output, only errors
Example usage:
mvn clean install -X
The debug output from -X can be quite extensive, showing you pretty much everything Maven is doing under the hood - similar to how npm’s --loglevel silly floods you with information.
If you need even more control over logging, Maven uses SLF4J under the hood, so you can also configure logging levels in a simplelogger.properties file, but the -X flag is usually what you want for troubleshooting, just like you’d use npm --loglevel silly when debugging npm issues.