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kruthiwusirika5andGitHub 48f5acba1c otelcol/grpclog: suppress benign gRPC client-disconnect warnings (#15024)
Fixes #5169

## Problem

When a gRPC client disconnects normally (e.g., a .NET app shutting
down its `TracerProvider`), the collector logs spurious WARN messages
from the gRPC transport layer:

These are expected during graceful client shutdown but appear
alarming to operators and pollute production logs.

## Root cause

grpc-go is doing the right thing: messages like this are gated
behind `LoggerV2.V(2)` in `internal/transport/http2_server.go`,
i.e. they are explicitly classified as supplemental verbosity, not
severity-level warnings. They should never reach a WARN sink.

The bug is in zapgrpc. `zapgrpc.Logger.V` is implemented as
`levelEnabler.Enabled(zapcore.Level(level - 1))`, which conflates
grpclog's *verbosity* with zap's *severity*. With WARN enabled,
`V(2)` returns true, so grpc-go thinks verbosity level 2 is
permitted and emits the message — which then gets formatted by
zapgrpc as a WARN entry. See
[uber-go/zap#1544](https://github.com/uber-go/zap/issues/1544).

## Solution

Wrap the installed `grpclog.LoggerV2` with a `fixedVerbosityLogger`
whose `V()` compares the requested level against a fixed threshold
(default 0) instead of the underlying zap severity enabler. This
restores grpclog's intended verbosity gating, so verbose messages
stop at grpc-go before formatting rather than being filtered out
of the log stream after the fact.

The default threshold of `0` matches grpclog when
`GRPC_GO_LOG_VERBOSITY_LEVEL` is unset.

This approach:

- Addresses the root cause (broken `V()` mapping) rather than
  string-matching specific message contents.
- Stops chatty messages at the source, before grpc-go formats them.
- Is generic — kills *all* `V(2)+` noise, including future grpc-go
  additions, not just two cherry-picked patterns.
- Leaves severity-level emission (`Info` / `Warning` / `Error`)
  completely unchanged.
- Tiny: ~10 lines of wrapper plus comment.

## Testing

- `TestFixedVerbosity` — asserts `V(0)` is enabled and `V(1)`/`V(2)`
  are not at the default threshold.
- `TestSeverityLevelsUnaffected` — direct `Warning("…")` still
  fires at WARN, confirming the wrapper does not gate severity.
- Existing `TestGRPCLogger` cases continue to pass unchanged.

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Signed-off-by: Sai Kruthi Wusirika <[email protected]>
2026-04-30 11:01:44 +00:00

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// Copyright The OpenTelemetry Authors
// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
package grpclog // import "go.opentelemetry.io/collector/otelcol/internal/grpclog"
import (
"go.uber.org/zap"
"go.uber.org/zap/zapcore"
"go.uber.org/zap/zapgrpc"
"google.golang.org/grpc/grpclog"
)
// fixedVerbosityLogger wraps a grpclog.LoggerV2 and reports verbosity against a
// fixed threshold instead of zap's severity enabler.
//
// zapgrpc.Logger.V(level) is implemented as levelEnabler.Enabled(zapcore.Level(level-1)),
// which conflates grpclog's supplemental verbosity with zap's severity. With WARN
// enabled, V(2) returns true, so grpc-go emits chatty per-RPC messages — including
// transport-layer notices logged on normal client disconnect — at WARN. See
// uber-go/zap#1544.
//
// Comparing against a fixed threshold restores grpclog's intended semantics.
// The default of 0 matches grpclog when GRPC_GO_LOG_VERBOSITY_LEVEL is unset.
type fixedVerbosityLogger struct {
grpclog.LoggerV2
verbosity int
}
func (l *fixedVerbosityLogger) V(level int) bool {
return level <= l.verbosity
}
// SetLogger constructs a zapgrpc.Logger instance, and installs it as grpc logger, cloned from baseLogger with
// exact configuration. The minimum level of gRPC logs is set to WARN should the loglevel of the collector is set to
// INFO to avoid copious logging from grpc framework.
func SetLogger(baseLogger *zap.Logger) *zapgrpc.Logger {
logger := zapgrpc.NewLogger(baseLogger.WithOptions(zap.WrapCore(func(core zapcore.Core) zapcore.Core {
var c zapcore.Core
var err error
loglevel := baseLogger.Level()
if loglevel == zapcore.InfoLevel {
loglevel = zapcore.WarnLevel
}
// NewIncreaseLevelCore errors only if the new log level is less than the initial core level.
c, err = zapcore.NewIncreaseLevelCore(core, loglevel)
// In case of an error changing the level, move on, this happens when using the NopCore
if err != nil {
c = core
}
return c.With([]zapcore.Field{zap.Bool("grpc_log", true)})
}), zap.AddCallerSkip(5)))
grpclog.SetLoggerV2(&fixedVerbosityLogger{LoggerV2: logger})
return logger
}