How to enable Hibernate SQL Logging in Spring Boot using application.properties You can enable hibernate sql logging level to Debug. This will print the sql queries fired by hibernate. logging.level.org.hibernate.SQL=DEBUG Your complete SQL configuration may look like following spring.jpa.hibernate.ddl-auto=update spring.datasource.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost/ekiras spring.datasource.username=root spring.datasource.password=root spring.datasource.driver-class-name=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver logging.level.org.hibernate.SQL=DEBUG