Setting -log-level debug introduces client-go logging at the INFO level

[siggy]

What is the issue?

Setting -log-level debug on the various Go Control Plane components enables more-detailed client-go logging, which is good, except those log lines are printed at the INFO level.

How can it be reproduced?

$ HOSTNAME=foo bin/go-run controller/cmd destination
INFO[2024-07-25T18:17:47Z] running version edge-24.4.5
INFO[2024-07-25T18:17:47Z] starting admin server on :9996
...
INFO[2024-07-25T18:17:50Z] caches synced

$ HOSTNAME=foo bin/go-run controller/cmd destination --log-level debug
INFO[2024-07-25T18:18:21Z] running version edge-24.4.5
INFO[2024-07-25T18:18:21Z] starting admin server on :9996
...
INFO[2024-07-25T18:18:22Z] GET [https://example.com:443/apis/discovery.k8s.io/v1](https://example.com/apis/discovery.k8s.io/v1) 200 OK in 246 milliseconds
INFO[2024-07-25T18:18:30Z] caches synced

Logs, error output, etc

see above

output of linkerd check -o short

n/a

Environment

edge-24.4.5

Possible solution

client-go logs should show up at the DEBUG level. more generally: setting -log-level debug should introduce DEBUG log lines, not more INFO lines.

Additional context

No response

Would you like to work on fixing this bug?

maybe

[alpeb]

The issue stems from us passing logrus' standard logger to klog, which uses an InfoLevel by default. We could easily change that level to Debug, and have all client-go log entries show as debug in the output.