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Tracing Apache Camel Routes
Apache Camel is a powerful tool for integrating different systems and services, but it can be difficult to troubleshoot routing and mediation issues when things go wrong. The Camel Tracer is a built-in tool that allows you to track the flow of messages through your routes and see the details of each step along the way.
In this blog post, we will explore how to use the Camel Tracer to diagnose problems in your Camel routes and how it can help you to understand the behaviour of your integration flows.
We will look at how to enable and configure the tracer, how to use it to trace messages passing through your routes, and how to view and analyze the trace logs.
By the end of this post, you will have a better understanding of how to use the Camel Tracer to troubleshoot your Camel routes and improve the overall maintainability of your integration flows.
Let’s build on our Bindy example by enabling tracing
Go to application.properties and enable tracing
camel.springboot.tracing=true
This should enable tracing, and on restart of the application, we should see logs as below.
2023–01–15 18:40:49.408 INFO 12167 — — [on(2)-127.0.0.1] o.s.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet : Completed initialization in 6 ms
2023–01–15 18:40:49.920 INFO…
