You probably have a log4j.properties file somewhere in the project. In that file you can configure which level of debug output you want. See this example:
log4j.rootLogger=info, console
log4j.appender.console=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender
log4j.appender.console.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.console.layout.ConversionPattern=%-4r [%t] %-5p %c %x - %m%n
log4j.logger.com.example=debug
The first line sets the log level for the root logger to “info”, i.e. only info, warn, error and fatal will be printed to the console (which is the appender defined a little below that).
The last line sets the logger for com.example.* (if you get your loggers via LogFactory.getLogger(getClass())) will be at debug level, i.e. debug will also be printed.