logging in journald

[InformatiQ]

Although the log4j2 config logs to console i still don't see the logs using journalctl
as far as i understand the --quiet passed to bin/elasticsearch is the issue
am I correct?

[martinb3]

Hi there -- yes, upstream has documented this in the systemd unit file. We are using their default shipped systemd unit files, and suggesting users drop in an override to change things, or simply supply an alternate template to this cookbook if they want to make bigger changes.

[InformatiQ]

the log4j2 template in the cookbook specifies console as root logger, yet no logs are sent to console unless i remove --quiet from the systemd unit file.
so my understanding is that --quiet overrides the log4j2 config
hence any overrides in the in the properties file won't really help with that.
I have modified the systemd unit template to make --quiet configurable, so I am validating my assumption bvefore submitting a PR

[martinb3]

@InformatiQ This may be something you want to take upstream. It looks like it's intentional.

[martinb3]

This seems to be the case in the 6.0.0 release as well.