Spring MDC Transaction Logging

Introduction In this article, we are going to see how to configure a Spring application to use MDC (Mapped Diagnostic Context) for transaction logging. This technique is going to help us inject the Persistence Context information as well as the associated database transaction identifier in all the log entries emitted from within a @Transactional service method.

How to log the database transaction id using MDC

Introduction In this article, I’m going to show you how you can log the database transaction id associated with a given SQL statement using the MDC (Mapped Diagnostic Context) feature offered by many logging frameworks. If you are writing data access code, you have to use logging. As I explained in this article, using a JDBC proxy tool like datasource-proxy or p6spy is the best approach to logging SQL statements. With datasource-proxy, you can easily build a JUnit extension to automatically detect N+1 query issues. For more details, check out the Hypersistence… Read More