## Activating route tracing

### Overview

Before you can trace messages through a route, you must activate route tracing for the route's routing context.

### Procedure

To start tracing on a routing context:

1. In the Fuse JMX Navigator tree, select the routing context on which you want to start tracing.

   You can select any route in the context to start tracing on the entire context.

2. Right-click it to open the context menu, and then select Start Tracing.

   If Stop Tracing Context appears on the context menu, tracing is already active.

### Related topics

Tracing messages through a route
Deactivating route tracing