Bug 1889473 - Kube-apiserver loglevel set to Normal but still it logs the TRACE level logs
Summary: Kube-apiserver loglevel set to Normal but still it logs the TRACE level logs
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: OpenShift Container Platform
Classification: Red Hat
Component: kube-apiserver
Version: 4.4
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
medium
Target Milestone: ---
: 4.7.0
Assignee: Venkata Siva Teja Areti
QA Contact: Ke Wang
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2020-10-19 18:07 UTC by Shivkumar Ople
Modified: 2024-10-01 16:58 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2020-10-21 19:52:24 UTC
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Description Shivkumar Ople 2020-10-19 18:07:13 UTC
Description of problem:

Kube-apiserver is patched with the below command to set the log level as 'Normal', but still the kube-apiserver logs shows TRACE level messages.


#oc patch kubeapiserver.operator/cluster --type=json -p '[{"op": "replace", "path": "/spec/logLevel", "value": "Normal" }]'


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
4.4



How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Patch the kube-apiserver. 
#oc patch kubeapiserver.operator/cluster --type=json -p '[{"op": "replace", "path": "/spec/logLevel", "value": "Normal" }]'

2.Check the logs once the kube-apiserver pod rolled out.
3.It shows some TRACE level messages.



Actual results:
Showing Trace level messages, which consumes more space for logging trace level messages

Expected results:
Should not show the Trace level messages

Additional info:

Comment 2 Venkata Siva Teja Areti 2020-10-21 19:52:24 UTC
I am not able to reproduce this in a 4.4 cluster.

"TRACE" in the log message here should not be confused with log levels. These messages are dumped by utility named tracer inside kube-apiserver.

"Normal", "Debug", "Trace", "TraceAll" have verbosity levels of 2, 4, 6, 8. Verbosity level kube-apiserver is using can be confirmed from the command line options printed to the log output.


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