feat: deprecated logLevel option

docs/development/configuration.md

@@ -38,7 +38,6 @@ e.g. apply one set of labels for `backend/package.json` and a different set of l
 module.exports = {
   npmrc: '//registry.npmjs.org/:_authToken=abc123',
   baseDir: '/tmp/renovate',
-  logLevel: 'debug',
   includeForks: true,
   gradle: { enabled: false },
 };
@@ -53,6 +52,8 @@ $ node renovate --help
 To configure any `<list>` items, separate with commas.
 E.g. `renovate --labels=renovate,dependency`.
 
+To enable debug logging export `LOG_LEVEL=debug` to your environment.
+
 ### renovate.json
 
 If you add a `renovate.json` file to the root of your repository, you can use this to override default settings.

docs/usage/self-hosted-configuration.md

@@ -172,6 +172,8 @@ By configuring using the environment it means that debug logging starts from the
 
 Additionally, if you configure `LOG_FORMAT=json` in env then logging will be done in JSON format instead of "pretty" format, which is usually better if you're doing any ingestion or parsing of the logs.
 
+Warning: Configuring `logLevel` config option or `--log-level` cli option is deprecated and will be removed in a major version.
+
 ## onboarding
 
 Set this to `false` if (a) you configure Renovate entirely on the bot side (i.e. empty `renovate.json` in repositories) and (b) you wish to run Renovate on every repository the bot has access to, and (c) you wish to skip the onboarding PRs.

docs/usage/self-hosting.md

@@ -101,7 +101,6 @@ metadata:
 data:
   config.json: |-
     {
-      "logLevel" : "debug",
       "repositories": ["orgname/repo","username/repo"],
       "dryRun" : "true"
     }
@@ -280,7 +279,6 @@ module.exports = {
   endpoint: 'https://self-hosted.gitlab/api/v4/',
   token: '**gitlab_token**',
   platform: 'gitlab',
-  logLevel: 'debug',
   onboardingConfig: {
     extends: ['config:base'],
   },

lib/config/config/__fixtures__/file.js

@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 // @ts-ignore
 module.exports = {
   token: 'abcdefg',
-  logLevel: 'error'
 };

lib/config/config/__fixtures__/with-force.js

@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 // @ts-ignore
 module.exports = {
   token: 'abcdefg',
-  logLevel: 'error',
   force: {
     schedule: null,
   }

lib/config/definitions.ts

@@ -350,12 +350,10 @@ const options: RenovateOptions[] = [
   // Log options
   {
     name: 'logLevel',
-    description: 'Logging level',
+    description: 'Logging level. Deprecated, use `LOG_LEVEL` environment.',
     stage: 'global',
     type: 'string',
     allowedValues: ['fatal', 'error', 'warn', 'info', 'debug', 'trace'],
-    default: 'info',
-    env: 'LOG_LEVEL',
   },
   {
     name: 'logFile',

lib/config/file.spec.ts

@@ -37,7 +37,6 @@ describe('config/file', () => {
         "platform": "github",
         "token":"abcdef",
         "logFileLevel": "warn",
-        "logLevel": "info",
         "onboarding": false,
         "gitAuthor": "Renovate Bot <renovate@whitesourcesoftware.com>"
         "onboardingConfig": {

lib/config/index.ts

@@ -80,8 +80,14 @@ export async function parseConfigs(
     delete config.privateKeyPath;
   }
 
-  // Set log level
-  levels('stdout', config.logLevel);
+  // Deprecated set log level: https://github.com/renovatebot/renovate/issues/8291
+  // istanbul ignore if
+  if (config.logLevel) {
+    logger.warn(
+      'Configuring logLevel in CLI or file is deprecated. Use LOG_LEVEL environment variable instead'
+    );
+    levels('stdout', config.logLevel);
+  }
 
   if (config.logContext) {
     // This only has an effect if logContext was defined via file or CLI, otherwise it would already have been detected in env