should we allow log and span levels to vary independently?

[garypen]

Setting the log level for the router also sets the level at which spans are generated. It's debatable if we should allow these to be set independently.

[deweyjose]

Hi @garypen some of my confusion related to this topic was under certain conditions (using uplink) I see no spans in DD when log level is higher than INFO. When using a static schema file I saw the higher level (debug and trace) spans in DD.

[BrynCooke]

I'm actually not sure this is possible. Spans go through tracing and then to otel, so I don't think this can ever be truly independent.

[abernix]

We're not actually sure this is possible, so we'll close for now until this comes up again.