Enable debug logging

When installing or upgrading Kong Operator with Helm, you can enable debug logging by adding the following to your values.yaml:

cat <<EOF > values.yaml
env:
  zap_log_level: debug
  zap_devel: "true"
  zap_time_encoding: iso8601
EOF

For more details about these options, see Kong Operator configuration options.

Run the following command to install Kong Operator using the values.yaml file we created:

helm upgrade --install kong-operator kong/kong-operator -n kong-system \
  --create-namespace \
  --set image.tag=2.1.0 \
  --set env.ENABLE_CONTROLLER_KONNECT=true \
  -f values.yaml

helm upgrade --install kong-operator kong/kong-operator -n kong-system \
  --create-namespace \
  --set image.tag=2.1.0 \
  -f values.yaml

Use the following command to display the Kong Operator logs:

kubectl logs -n kong-system deployment/kong-operator-kong-operator-controller-manager -f

You should see logs with the DEBUG level.

Development mode (--zap-devel=true) uses a console encoder with colored, human-readable output. Production mode uses JSON encoding suitable for log aggregation systems.