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Current state:  Under Discussion. Accepted

Discussion thread: https://www.mail-archive.com/dev@kafka.apache.org/msg99656.html

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Pull request: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/7403

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This change will introduce an /admin/loggers endpoint to the Connect worker that can be used to get/modify the log levels of any named loggers in the Connect worker. These modifications will not be persisted across worker restarts, and will only affect the worker whose endpoint received this REST request (other workers in the cluster will be unaffected). The /admin/loggers endpoint will support the following operations:

Get a list of all named loggers

Returns a list of loggers along with their current log levels. Entries are sorted by the logger's name. A named logger is one that is created by either the worker's classes using the LoggerFactory.getLogger method or is an ancestor denoted by the name of the package it corresponds to. Their levels are set by the log4j configuration file used by the worker JVM, or by using this API. 

$ curl -Ss http://localhost:8083/admin/loggers | jq
[
  ...
  "org.apache.kafka.connect.runtime.WorkerSinkTask": {
    "level": "INFO"
  },
  "org.apache.kafka.connect.runtime.WorkerSourceTask": {
    "level": "DEBUG"
  },
  ...
]

Get the log level of a specific logger

If the name of a logger is specified, only return the level to which that logger is writing messages at. This level may be set by a log4j configuration file, or by this API. If neither of those sources specified a level, log4j uses the level of an ancestor that was set by one of these means (the root logger's level is used if none of the other ancestor had a level set to it).

$ curl -Ss http://localhost:8083/admin/loggers/org.apache.kafka.connect.runtime.WorkerSinkTask | jq
{
   "level": "INFO"
}

Even if it is not used by any runtime classes to log any messages, requesting the level of an ancestor package will also return a log level using the above rules.

$ curl -Ss http://localhost:8083/admin/loggers/org.apache | jq
{
   "level": "INFO",
}

Set the log level of a specific logger

Use PUT to set the level of a logger. The API returns a the list of loggers whose levels were modified.

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