gcloud bloats its log files - log level set to NOTSET

[Zaar Hai]

I've noticed that every invocation of gcloud produces 500KB of log files under ~/.config/gcloud/logs/. There is no way to change it - "--verbosity" flag does not affect the log file level. 

glcoud removes logs only after 30 days (it's hard-coded at lib/googlecloudsdk/core/log.py:215) and having a cron job that runs once a minute, one will need 30GB of disk space just for logs.

I suggest fixing it to allow file logging to have the same level as console log (see the attached patch). At least, a user should be have an option to configure file logging - currently its level is simply hard-coded to NOTSET (i.e. all messages are logged).

[Vilas Jagannath]

Thank you for your feedback. This is a valid concern. We have filed a bug to provide more control on the number (and/or days) of log files that are retained. Unfortunately we cannot implement your patch because it will become harder to troubleshoot user issues without detailed info in the log files.

[Vivek Dasari]

I am also running into this same issue of gcloud writing too many logs to my home directory. I'd like to express my support for the following features to mitigate these bugs: 

1) Users can change their logging directory .

2) Users can change their logging verbosity.

[Vilas Jagannath]

Thanks for your feedback.

Btw, logs are created inside your config directory, which can be changed using the CLOUD_SDK_CONFIG environment variable.

[Zaar Hai]

I think that Vivek means only changing the log location directory, while keeping the rest of the (important) configuration in tact.

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[Vilas Jagannath]

Acknowledged. The CLOUD_SDK_CONFIG suggestion was a workaround in case he was blocked by this right now.