IntelliJ IDEA 2024.2 Help

Troubleshooting materials

Consider attaching some troubleshooting materials for a more precise and quick answer. The following materials might be helpful for our investigation: log files, screenshots, animations, videos, database dumps.

Locate log files

Locate IntelliJ IDEA log

  • Click Help | Show Log in <file_browser>. The idea.log file contains recent log information about your IDE performance.

The idea.log file contains recent log information about your IDE performance.

Change location of the SQL log

To change location of the SQL log, add the -Didea.system.path property to the custom VM options. This change affects all logs.

  1. Click Help | Edit Custom VM Options.

  2. At the end of the option list, add the following line: -Didea.system.path=/path/to/your_log_directory.

Change location of the SQL log

Configure IntelliJ IDEA log settings

To avoid editing the log.xml file itself, IntelliJ IDEA suggests a handy dialog to change logging level for a category. This file resides under the bin directory of IntelliJ IDEA installation.

  1. Click Help | Diagnostic Tools | Debug Log Settings.

  2. In the Custom Debug Log Configuration dialog, type the log categories names, separated with new lines.

Last modified: 11 October 2024