+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1679898 +++

In 4.2.0-0.nightly-2019-09-09-235057, same issue:
Set kubeapiserver/cluster logLevel to TraceAll. Wait kas pods restart.

Check log level in process. No -v=8 shown:
oc rsh -n openshift-kube-apiserver kube-apiserver-ip-10-0-130-160.sa-east-1.compute.internal
sh-4.2# ps -eF | grep apiserver
root          1      0 19 401686 913600 2 03:56 ?        00:02:24 hyperkube kube-apiserver --openshift-config=/etc/kubernetes/static-pod-resources/configmaps/config/config.yaml
oc get pod kube-apiserver-ip-10-0-130-160.sa-east-1.compute.internal -n openshift-kube-apiserver -o yaml
spec:
  containers:
  - args:
    - |
      if [ -f /etc/kubernetes/static-pod-resources/kube-apiserver-certs/configmaps/trusted-ca-bundle/tls-ca-bundle.pem ]; then
        echo "Copying system trust bundle"
        cp -f /etc/kubernetes/static-pod-resources/kube-apiserver-certs/configmaps/trusted-ca-bundle/tls-ca-bundle.pem /etc/pki/ca-trust/extracted/pem/tls-ca-bundle.pem
      fi
      exec hyperkube kube-apiserver --openshift-config=/etc/kubernetes/static-pod-resources/configmaps/config/config.yaml
    - -v=8 # <-- placed wrong
    command:
    - /bin/bash
    - -ec
    env:
...