IntelliJ IDEA plugin development - Log from within plugin

Question

How can I log something for debugging purpose from within a IntelliJ plugin? (I'm not using Community Edition )

Answer 1

com.intellij.openapi.diagnostic.Logger is the officially recommended logger to use for IntelliJ plugin development. See this for more details: https://devnet.jetbrains.com/message/5306410#5306410

The thread is old so some of the other information might be outdated, that class still exists and should be used for logging.

Answer 2

I think that this will be helpful. It is a wrapper that provides logging based on IDEA internals or java.util.logging (if internals aren't available).