Teamcity build log

Question

I use TeamCity for continious integration. Solution checkouts on deploy machine and builds. Deploy machine running under Windows Server 2008 R2 - Russian. There are russian language PowerShell installed etc. In TeamCity build log, all russian symbols are in wrong encoding.

How to change encoding in build log?

Failsafe

Answer 1

1. change encoding for log4j configuration for build log in conf/teamcity-agent-log4j.xml

   <appender name="ROLL.BUILD" class="jetbrains.buildServer.util.TCRollingFileAppender">
     <param name="file" value="${teamcity_logs}teamcity-build.log"/>
     <param name="Encoding" value="UTF-8"/>
     ...
   </appender>
   

2. add file.encoding=UTF-8 parameter launcher/conf/wrapper.conf that uses agent on start you should add it like that

   wrapper.app.parameter.6=-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8
   

3. add -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 in JAVA_OPTS

that steps helps me but now i have a bug - if you watching tail new Russian symbols in log replaced by "?". after refreshing the page they shown correct.

Stronski

Additional reading: confluence.jetbrains.com/display/TCD7/… – Lxx

Answer 2

For me, on Windows 7, TeamCity 9.0.3 helped adding "teamcity.runner.commandline.stdstreams.encoding=866" line into the buildAgent.properties file. I've got the encoding value by typing "chcp" in the command prompt.

Bouley

It's helpful with Russian encoding. Thank you! – Lampas

Answer 3

For Teamcity 9 the next had helped:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales
sudo update-locale LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 LANG=en_US.UTF-8

(do this being on your agents)

After that - restart the agent:

./BuildAgent/bin/agent.sh stop

Theory

Answer 4

For me, on TeamCity 7 and TeamCity 8, helped editing file teamcity-agent-log4j.xml:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?>

and restarting TeamCity after that.

But encoding is correct only after refreshing the log page.

Restaurateur

Answer 5

The simplest solution I've encountered so far is to go to your TeamCity project (not configuration) settings -> "Parameters" tab to the left -> Click "Add new parameter" -> select "Configuration parameter" -> set teamcity.runner.commandline.stdstreams.encoding to UTF-8 and hit "Save".

Now all logs in all build runs under this project will convert non-ascii characters through UTF-8. Note that this works in TeamCity 2017.1.4. Don't know if this is an option in earlier or later versions.

Radiophone