Turns out I was adding the logging level to the console but was viewing the log through docker which shows the file So i just needed to add the log level to the file handler. I didn’t want to add to the root logger cause it was too noisy… with it set this way everything looks perfect. <console-handler name="CONSOLE"> <level name="DEBUG"/> <formatter> <named-formatter name="COLOR-PATTERN"/> </formatter> </console-handler> <periodic-rotating-file-handler name="FILE" autoflush="true"> <level name="DEBUG"/> <formatter> <named-formatter name="PATTERN"/> </formatter> <file relative-to="jboss.server.log.dir" path="server.log"/> <suffix value=".yyyy-MM-dd"/> <append value="true"/> </periodic-rotating-file-handler> On Nov 14, 2017, at 12:06 PM, Phillip Fleischer <pcfleischer@outlook.com<mailto:pcfleischer@outlook.com>> wrote: Hi, I’m trying to debug using the saml clients and identity brokering, in the docs and several messages say that this can be done by turning on debug or trace. I added the following to my standalone.xml but I’m not seeing anything. I also tried on a remote host by using jboss-cli.sh command to add the logger to no avail. Is there something I’m missing? <logger category="org.keycloak.saml"> <level name="TRACE"/> </logger>