OTEL_LOG_LEVEL

[naseemkullah]

It would be nice to just set something like OTEL_LOG_LEVEL in an instrumented service's env and that automatically get picked up by the tracer provider.

[Oberon00]

Why do you single out the tracer provider here? What exactly do you expect to configure with OTEL_LOG_LEVEL? The logging framework that OTel itself uses (e.g. java.util.logging, Python logging module, etc)?

[naseemkullah]

Hi @Oberon00 ,

• I singled out the tracer provider as in my experience working with the js implementation it was it's log level property that controlled the verbosity of otel itself.

edit: upon further investigation, it should also be applied to metrics provider and any other otel provider

• Yes the logging framework used by otel itself.

[reyang]

Superseded by #572.