Archiva's logs directory contains an archiva log file named archiva.log, which logs all the startup information and the output logs of Archiva.
A typical record looks like this:
2013-05-02 23:15:41,521 [pool-6-thread-1] INFO org.apache.archiva.scheduler.repository.ArchivaRepositoryScanningTaskExecutor [] - Gathering repository statistics 2013-05-02 23:15:41,582 [pool-6-thread-1] INFO org.apache.archiva.metadata.repository.stats.DefaultRepositoryStatisticsManager [] - Gathering statistics executed in 60ms 2013-05-02 23:15:41,615 [pool-6-thread-1] INFO org.apache.archiva.scheduler.repository.ArchivaRepositoryScanningTaskExecutor [] - Finished repository task: RepositoryTask [repositoryId=snapshots, resourceFile=null, scanAll=false, updateRelatedArtifacts=false] 2013-05-02 23:15:41,626 [pool-5-thread-1] INFO org.apache.archiva.scheduler.indexing.ArchivaIndexingTaskExecutor [] - indexed maven repository: snapshots, onlyUpdate: false, time 106 ms 2013-05-02 23:15:41,673 [WrapperSimpleAppMain] WARN org.apache.archiva.redback.components.scheduler.DefaultScheduler [] - Will not schedule this job as a job {rj:internal:rg} already exists. 2013-05-02 23:15:41,675 [WrapperSimpleAppMain] WARN org.apache.archiva.redback.components.scheduler.DefaultScheduler [] - Will not schedule this job as a job {rj:snapshots:rg} already exists. 2013-05-02 23:15:41,680 [WrapperSimpleAppMain] INFO org.apache.archiva.scheduler.repository.DefaultRepositoryArchivaTaskScheduler [] - Time to initalize DefaultRepositoryArchivaTaskScheduler: 8 ms 2013-05-02 23:15:41,682 [WrapperSimpleAppMain] INFO org.apache.archiva.web.startup.Banner [] - _________________________ __________________________________ /\_ / \ /`/@), | On behalf of all of the alpacas | | (~' __| toiling away on the Apache Archiva | _,--.___/ | \ project team, I would like to | ,' , ( | \ welcome you to Archiva | | ( \ / | 1.4-M4-SNAPSHOT | \ )\_/ ,_/ | | / / ( |/ | http://archiva.apache.org/ | ( | ( | | users@archiva.apache.org | \| \| \__________________________________/ 2013-05-02 23:15:41,707 [WrapperSimpleAppMain] INFO org.apache.jackrabbit.webdav.server.AbstractWebdavServlet [] - authenticate-header = Basic realm="Jackrabbit Webdav Server" 2013-05-02 23:15:41,708 [WrapperSimpleAppMain] INFO org.apache.jackrabbit.webdav.server.AbstractWebdavServlet [] - csrf-protection = null 2013-05-02 23:15:41,708 [WrapperSimpleAppMain] INFO org.apache.jackrabbit.webdav.server.AbstractWebdavServlet [] - createAbsoluteURI = true 2013-05-02 23:15:41,726 [WrapperSimpleAppMain] INFO org.apache.archiva.webdav.RepositoryServlet [] - initServers done in 18 ms