[core.logging] Deprecates legacy logging dest, json, verbosity and rotate configurations

docs/migration/migrate_8_0.asciidoc

@@ -80,6 +80,156 @@ logging:
 -------------------
 See https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/87939 for more details.
 
+[float]
+==== Logging destination is specified by the appender
+*Details:* Previously log destination would be `stdout` and could be changed to `file` using `logging.dest`. 
+
+*Impact:* To restore the previous behavior, in `kibana.yml` use the `console` appender to send logs to `stdout`.
+[source,yaml]
+-------------------
+logging:
+  root:
+    appenders: [default, console]
+-------------------
+
+To send logs to `file` with a given file path, you should define a custom appender with `type:file`:
+[source,yaml]
+-------------------
+logging:
+  appenders:
+    file:
+      type: file
+      fileName: /var/log/kibana.log
+      layout:
+        type: pattern
+  root:
+    appenders: [default, file]
+-------------------
+
+[float]
+==== Specify log event output with root
+*Details:* Previously logging output would be specified by `logging.silent` (none), 'logging.quiet' (error messages only) and `logging.verbose` (all).
+
+*Impact:* To restore the previous behavior, in `kibana.yml` specify `logging.root.level` as one of `off`, `error`, `all`:
+[source,yaml]
+-------------------
+# suppress all logs
+logging:
+  root:
+    appenders: [default]
+    level: off
+-------------------
+
+[source,yaml]
+-------------------
+# only log error messages
+logging:
+  root:
+    appenders: [default]
+    level: error
+-------------------
+
+[source,yaml]
+-------------------
+# log all events
+logging:
+  root:
+    appenders: [default]
+    level: all
+-------------------
+
+[float]
+==== Suppress all log output with root
+*Details:* Previously all logging output would be suppressed if `logging.silent` was true.
+
+*Impact:* To restore the previous behavior, in `kibana.yml` turn `logging.root.level` to 'off'.
+[source,yaml]
+-------------------
+logging:
+  root:
+    appenders: [default]
+    level: off
+-------------------
+
+[float]
+==== Suppress log output with root
+*Details:* Previously all logging output other than error messages would be suppressed if `logging.quiet` was true.
+
+*Impact:* To restore the previous behavior, in `kibana.yml` turn `logging.root.level` to 'error'.
+[source,yaml]
+-------------------
+logging:
+  root:
+    appenders: [default]
+    level: error
+-------------------
+
+[float]
+==== Log all output with root
+*Details:* Previously all events would be logged if `logging.verbose` was true.
+
+*Impact:* To restore the previous behavior, in `kibana.yml` turn `logging.root.level` to 'all'.
+[source,yaml]
+-------------------
+logging:
+  root:
+    appenders: [default]
+    level: all
+-------------------
+
+[float]
+==== Declare log message format for each custom appender
+*Details:* Previously all events would be logged in `json` format when `logging.json` was true.
+
+*Impact:* To restore the previous behavior, in `kibana.yml` configure the logging format for each custom appender with the `appender.layout` property. There is no default for custom appenders and each one must be configured expilictly.
+
+[source,yaml]
+-------------------
+logging:
+  appenders:
+    custom_console:
+      type: console
+      layout:
+        type: pattern
+    custom_json:
+      type: console
+      layout:
+        type: json
+  loggers:
+    - name: plugins.myPlugin
+      appenders: [custom_console]
+  root:
+    appenders: [default, custom_json]
+    level: warn
+-------------------
+
+[float]
+==== Configure log rotation with the rolling-file appender
+*Details:* Previously log rotation would be enabled when `logging.rotate.enabled` was true.
+
+*Impact:* To restore the previous behavior, in `kibana.yml` use the `rolling-file` appender.
+
+[source,yaml]
+-------------------
+logging:
+  appenders:
+    rolling-file:
+      type: rolling-file
+      fileName: /var/logs/kibana.log
+      policy:
+        type: size-limit
+        size: 50mb
+      strategy:
+        type: numeric
+        pattern: '-%i'
+        max: 2
+      layout:
+        type: pattern
+  loggers:
+    - name: plugins.myPlugin
+      appenders: [rolling-file]
+-------------------
+
 [float]
 ==== `xpack.security.authProviders` is no longer valid
 *Details:* The deprecated `xpack.security.authProviders` setting in the `kibana.yml` file has been removed.

packages/kbn-config/src/env.ts

@@ -22,8 +22,9 @@ export interface EnvOptions {
 export interface CliArgs {
   dev: boolean;
   envName?: string;
-  quiet: boolean;
-  silent: boolean;
+  /** @deprecated */
+  quiet?: boolean;
+  silent?: boolean;
   watch: boolean;
   basePath: boolean;
   oss: boolean;

packages/kbn-legacy-logging/src/schema.ts

@@ -11,7 +11,12 @@ import Joi from 'joi';
 const HANDLED_IN_KIBANA_PLATFORM = Joi.any().description(
   'This key is handled in the new platform ONLY'
 );
-
+/**
+ * @deprecated
+ *
+ * Legacy logging has been deprecated and will be removed in 8.0.
+ * Set up logging from the platform logging instead
+ */
 export interface LegacyLoggingConfig {
   silent: boolean;
   quiet: boolean;
@@ -38,13 +43,11 @@ export const legacyLoggingConfigSchema = Joi.object()
     root: HANDLED_IN_KIBANA_PLATFORM,
 
     silent: Joi.boolean().default(false),
-
     quiet: Joi.boolean().when('silent', {
       is: true,
       then: Joi.boolean().default(true).valid(true),
       otherwise: Joi.boolean().default(false),
     }),
-
     verbose: Joi.boolean().when('quiet', {
       is: true,
       then: Joi.valid(false).default(false),

src/cli/serve/serve.js

@@ -51,7 +51,6 @@ function applyConfigOverrides(rawConfig, opts, extraCliOptions) {
   const get = _.partial(_.get, rawConfig);
   const has = _.partial(_.has, rawConfig);
   const merge = _.partial(_.merge, rawConfig);
-
   if (opts.oss) {
     delete rawConfig.xpack;
   }
@@ -112,10 +111,18 @@ function applyConfigOverrides(rawConfig, opts, extraCliOptions) {
   if (opts.elasticsearch) set('elasticsearch.hosts', opts.elasticsearch.split(','));
   if (opts.port) set('server.port', opts.port);
   if (opts.host) set('server.host', opts.host);
-  if (opts.quiet) set('logging.quiet', true);
-  if (opts.silent) set('logging.silent', true);
-  if (opts.verbose) set('logging.verbose', true);
-  if (opts.logFile) set('logging.dest', opts.logFile);
+  if (opts.silent) {
+    set('logging.silent', true);
+    set('logging.root.level', 'off');
+  }
+  if (opts.verbose) {
+    if (has('logging.root.appenders')) {
+      set('logging.root.level', 'all');
+    } else {
+      // Only set logging.verbose to true for legacy logging when KP logging isn't configured.
+      set('logging.verbose', true);
+    }
+  }
 
   set('plugins.scanDirs', _.compact([].concat(get('plugins.scanDirs'), opts.pluginDir)));
   set('plugins.paths', _.compact([].concat(get('plugins.paths'), opts.pluginPath)));
@@ -140,11 +147,14 @@ export default function (program) {
       [getConfigPath()]
     )
     .option('-p, --port <port>', 'The port to bind to', parseInt)
-    .option('-q, --quiet', 'Prevent all logging except errors')
+    .option('-q, --quiet', 'Deprecated, set logging level in your configuration')
     .option('-Q, --silent', 'Prevent all logging')
     .option('--verbose', 'Turns on verbose logging')
     .option('-H, --host <host>', 'The host to bind to')
-    .option('-l, --log-file <path>', 'The file to log to')
+    .option(
+      '-l, --log-file <path>',
+      'Deprecated, set logging file destination in your configuration'
+    )
     .option(
       '--plugin-dir <path>',
       'A path to scan for plugins, this can be specified multiple ' +
@@ -204,6 +214,7 @@ export default function (program) {
       cliArgs: {
         dev: !!opts.dev,
         envName: unknownOptions.env ? unknownOptions.env.name : undefined,
+        // no longer supported
         quiet: !!opts.quiet,
         silent: !!opts.silent,
         watch: !!opts.watch,