'public' method without logging

Reports any public methods that do not contain a logging statement. This inspection does not report simple getters and setters.

For example:

  public class Crucial {
    private static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(Crucial.class);
    public void doImportantStuff() {
      // warning on this method
    }

    public void doOtherStuff() {
      LOG.info("do other stuff");
    }
  }

Locating this inspection

By ID

Can be used to locate inspection in e.g. Qodana configuration files, where you can quickly enable or disable it, or adjust its settings.

PublicMethodWithoutLogging

Via Settings dialog

Path to the inspection settings via IntelliJ Platform IDE Settings dialog, when you need to adjust inspection settings directly from your IDE.

Settings or Preferences | Editor | Inspections | Java | Logging

Use the table below to specify Logger class names. Public methods that do not use instance methods of the specified classes will be reported by this inspection.

Inspection options

Here you can find the description of settings available for the 'public' method without logging inspection, and the reference of their default values.

Logger class names: Default value:
[java.util.logging.Logger, org.slf4j.Logger, org.apache.commons.logging.Log, org.apache.log4j.Logger, org.apache.logging.log4j.Logger]

Suppressing Inspection

You can suppress this inspection by placing the following comment marker before the code fragment where you no longer want messages from this inspection to appear:

//noinspection PublicMethodWithoutLogging

More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:

IntelliJ IDEA 2025.2

Inspection Details
By default bundled with:	IntelliJ IDEA 2025.2, Qodana for JVM 2025.2,

Last modified: 18 September 2025