Surpress Azure Monitor Log writting to StdErr

[johnkattenhorn]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Azure Monitor Open Telemetry to Console write log entries destined for Azure Monitor to the Console using StdErr which makes the output noisy.

Describe the solution you'd like
Like to be able to suppress the output of Azure Monitor so that it doesn't write to StdErr

Describe alternatives you've considered
Tried to find a way to redirect the output to dummy file using alternative stream but this seemed to have undesired side-effects.

Additional context
Any logs that we want outputted to the console are being managed through another logger using structlog

[github-actions]

Thanks for the feedback! We are routing this to the appropriate team for follow-up. cc @gulopesd @Haiying-MSFT @jairmyree @joshfree @KarishmaGhiya @KevinBlasko @kurtzeborn @nisha-bhatia @pvaneck @sarangan12 @scottaddie @srnagar @ToddKingMSFT.

[lzchen]

Could you paste your pip freeze as well as a code snippet of how you are instrumenting with Azure monitor OpenTelemetry SDK. Also, which logs specifically are noisy? The INFO logs?

[johnkattenhorn]

Hi,

Thanks for coming back to me, in the end I took a different approach and wrote a processor for structlog which allow me to post to Azure Monitor via the REST API so I could keep the structured logging and console output and also achieve a push to Azure Monitor.

Just some other feedback, since migration away from OpenCensus to OpenTelemetry I found it quite difficult to just push logs, no spans or anything just yet.

I know the Azure Log Handler is there and it might be just my use case but integrating with structlog which is quite popular was tricker than I hoped.

If you would like to see the code for this please let me know else I'll close this issue and thank you again for your time.

John