View log of maven commands run by Eclipse plugins

I often found myself in a situation where I would like to see exactly which Maven commands Eclipse is running behind the scenes. In this case I am running a webapp with WTP, but this question is more general (though I would gladly accept answers for just that scenario).

Is there any way either with a pom configuration or an Eclipse configuration to view a log of all commands (and potentially any output) that any Eclipse plugin (or at least m2eclipse-wtp) have run?

Where can I find Maven logs?

home}/conf/logging/simplelogger. properties file.

Where is Maven console in Eclipse?

Select Window > Show View > Console. The console view is displayed. Select the Maven console. Click the drop-down arrow next to the Open Console icon and select Maven Console.

The Maven Console will show you the Maven output from m2e and m2eclipse - access it from the very right hand side dropdown of the normal Console view.