Bug: nodeos logging strange behavior

[ank-everstake]

There is very strange behavior when using extended logging (using logging.json).

What is observed: "enabled - bool value to enable/disable the appender" - does not seem to work at all, nor in appenders, nor in loggers section. For example:

• if additional loggers are specified, nodeos - pushes messages, even if they are enabled:false
• stdout stream seems not to work at all, if you configure it as an appender and specify in logger, messages are pushed only to stderr stream
• If you configure a gelf-type appender and do not enable it - nodeos pushes a message in stderr like opened GELF socket to endpoint host:port and indeed makes connection and pushes messages to the receiver specified
• if you specify level:off and enabled:true - nodeos pushes some log lines in stderr....it is a bit confusing, maybe it would be better to drop level: off and keep enabled value as in (refer syslog rfc5424), though making it work

Tested on v2.0.1 tag, built from sources, Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS.

[johndebord]

Despite being in the logging.json file, those knobs have not been implemented yet, and we are currently reviewing the different avenues to approach modifying the logging facility.

[mharrisb1]

We are closing this issue. We are aware of this and other issues in fc::logger and will create a mega-issue linking this and the other logging-related issues soon to address all problems in one effort.