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Please keep the discussion on the mailing list rather than commenting on the wiki (wiki discussions get unwieldy fast).

Motivation

Kafka Connect workers do does not provide an out-of-the-box facility to change log levels. When debugging connectors or the Connect framework, one has to update the log4j.properties file and restart the worker to see new logs. This is cumbersome in most cases, and restarting the worker sometimes hides bugs by resetting the internal state.

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