Conduktor Console log configuration

Log configuration environment variables

Console-wide log configuration

To configure Conduktor Console logs globally, you can use the following environment variables:

Environment Variable	Default value
CDK_ROOT_LOG_LEVEL	INFO	Global Console log level, one of OFF, ERROR, WARN, INFO, DEBUG
CDK_ROOT_LOG_FORMAT	TEXT	Log format, one of TEXT or JSON (sice 1.26.0)
CDK_ROOT_LOG_COLOR	true	Enable color in logs when possible

info

For backward compatibility, CDK_DEBUG: true is still supported, and is equivalent to CDK_ROOT_LOG_LEVEL: DEBUG.

Per module log configuration

To configure Conduktor Console logs on a per-module basis, you can use the environment variables detailed below.

Possible values for all of them are: OFF, ERROR, WARN, INFO, DEBUG, and TRACE.

Environment Variable	Default value	Description
PLATFORM_STARTUP_LOG_LEVEL	INFO	Set the setup/configuration process logs level. By default, it is set to INFO, but switches to DEBUG if CDK_ROOT_LOG_LEVEL: DEBUG.
CONSOLE_ROOT_LOG_LEVEL	CDK_ROOT_LOG_LEVEL	Logs related to any actions done in the Console UI
PLATFORM_API_ROOT_LOG_LEVEL	CDK_ROOT_LOG_LEVEL	Internal platform API logs (health endpoints)

Log level inheritance

If you don't explicitly set the log level for a module, it will inherit the CDK_ROOT_LOG_LEVEL.

For instance, if you only set

CDK_ROOT_LOG_LEVEL: DEBUG
# CONSOLE_ROOT_LOG_LEVEL isn't set

Then, CONSOLE_ROOT_LOG_LEVEL will be automatically set to DEBUG.

Similarly, if you set:

CDK_ROOT_LOG_LEVEL: INFO
CONSOLE_ROOT_LOG_LEVEL: DEBUG

Then, CONSOLE_ROOT_LOG_LEVEL will still be set to DEBUG, and isn't overridden.

Fine-tuning log configuration with configuration file

If you want to further customize your logging at an individual logger-level, you can use a per-module logback configuration file.

By default, all logback configuration files are located in /opt/conduktor/loggers/ directory with READ-ONLY permissions.

At startup, the Console will copy all (missing) logback configuration files from /opt/conduktor/loggers/ to /var/conduktor/configs/loggers/ directory with READ-WRITE permissions.

Because all logback configuration files are set to reload themselves every 15 seconds, you can then edit logback configuration files inside the container volume in the /var/conduktor/configs/loggers/ directory, to tune log level per logger.

All logback configuration files declare some expected appenders named :

Appender name	Description
STDOUT	Appender that writes logs to stdout
STDOUT_COLOR	Appender that writes logs to stdout with color
ASYNC_STDOUT	Appender that writes logs to stdout asynchronously
ASYNC_STDOUT_COLOR	Appender that writes logs to stdout asynchronously with color

They also use environment variables defined here to set their root log level.

Structured logging (JSON)

To enable structured logging, simply set CONSOLE_ROOT_LOG_LEVEL=JSON.

The logs will be structured using following format :

{
 "timestamp": "2024-06-14T10:09:25.802542476+00:00",
 "level": "<log level>",
 "message": "<log message>",
 "logger": "<logger name>",
 "thread": "<logger thread>",
 "stack_trace": "<throwable>",
 "mdc": {
   "key": "value"
 }
}

tip

The log timestamp is encoded in ISO-8601 format.

info

In case of structured logging enabled, CDK_ROOT_LOG_COLOR is always ignored.