separate core and provider loggers

Now that hclog can independently set levels on related loggers, we can
separate the log levels for different subsystems in terraform.

This adds the new environment variables, `TF_LOG_CORE` and
`TF_LOG_PROVIDER`, which each take the same set of log level arguments,
and only applies to logs from that subsystem. This means that setting
`TF_LOG_CORE=level` will not show logs from providers, and
`TF_LOG_PROVIDER=level` will not show logs from core. The behavior of
`TF_LOG` alone does not change.

While it is not necessarily needed since the default is to disable logs,
there is also a new level argument of `off`, which reflects the
associated level in hclog.

command/meta_providers.go

@@ -335,7 +335,7 @@ func providerFactory(meta *providercache.CachedProvider) providers.Factory {
 
 		config := &plugin.ClientConfig{
 			HandshakeConfig:  tfplugin.Handshake,
-			Logger:           logging.NewProviderLogger(),
+			Logger:           logging.NewProviderLogger(""),
 			AllowedProtocols: []plugin.Protocol{plugin.ProtocolGRPC},
 			Managed:          true,
 			Cmd:              exec.Command(execFile),
@@ -383,7 +383,7 @@ func unmanagedProviderFactory(provider addrs.Provider, reattach *plugin.Reattach
 
 		config := &plugin.ClientConfig{
 			HandshakeConfig:  tfplugin.Handshake,
-			Logger:           logging.NewHCLogger("unmanaged-plugin"),
+			Logger:           logging.NewProviderLogger("unmanaged."),
 			AllowedProtocols: []plugin.Protocol{plugin.ProtocolGRPC},
 			Managed:          false,
 			Reattach:         reattach,

command/plugins.go

@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ func internalPluginClient(kind, name string) (*plugin.Client, error) {
 		VersionedPlugins: tfplugin.VersionedPlugins,
 		AllowedProtocols: []plugin.Protocol{plugin.ProtocolGRPC},
 		AutoMTLS:         enableProviderAutoMTLS,
-		Logger:           logging.NewProviderLogger(),
+		Logger:           logging.NewLogger(kind),
 	}
 
 	return plugin.NewClient(cfg), nil
@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ func provisionerFactory(meta discovery.PluginMeta) terraform.ProvisionerFactory
 			HandshakeConfig:  tfplugin.Handshake,
 			VersionedPlugins: tfplugin.VersionedPlugins,
 			Managed:          true,
-			Logger:           logging.NewHCLogger("provisioner"),
+			Logger:           logging.NewLogger("provisioner"),
 			AllowedProtocols: []plugin.Protocol{plugin.ProtocolGRPC},
 			AutoMTLS:         enableProviderAutoMTLS,
 		}

internal/logging/logging.go

@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ package logging
 import (
 	"fmt"
 	"io"
-	"io/ioutil"
 	"log"
 	"os"
 	"strings"
@@ -15,12 +14,18 @@ import (
 // These are the environmental variables that determine if we log, and if
 // we log whether or not the log should go to a file.
 const (
-	EnvLog     = "TF_LOG"      // Set to True
-	EnvLogFile = "TF_LOG_PATH" // Set to a file
+	envLog     = "TF_LOG"
+	envLogFile = "TF_LOG_PATH"
+
+	// Allow logging of specific subsystems.
+	// We only separate core and providers for now, but this could be extended
+	// to other loggers, like provisioners and remote-state backends.
+	envLogCore     = "TF_LOG_CORE"
+	envLogProvider = "TF_LOG_PROVIDER"
 )
 
 // ValidLevels are the log level names that Terraform recognizes.
-var ValidLevels = []string{"TRACE", "DEBUG", "INFO", "WARN", "ERROR"}
+var ValidLevels = []string{"TRACE", "DEBUG", "INFO", "WARN", "ERROR", "OFF"}
 
 // logger is the global hclog logger
 var logger hclog.Logger
@@ -29,7 +34,7 @@ var logger hclog.Logger
 var logWriter io.Writer
 
 func init() {
-	logger = NewHCLogger("")
+	logger = newHCLogger("")
 	logWriter = logger.StandardWriter(&hclog.StandardLoggerOptions{InferLevels: true})
 
 	// setup the default std library logger to use our output
@@ -65,15 +70,12 @@ func HCLogger() hclog.Logger {
 	return logger
 }
 
-// NewHCLogger returns a new hclog.Logger instance with the given name
-func NewHCLogger(name string) hclog.Logger {
+// newHCLogger returns a new hclog.Logger instance with the given name
+func newHCLogger(name string) hclog.Logger {
 	logOutput := io.Writer(os.Stderr)
-	logLevel := CurrentLogLevel()
-	if logLevel == "" {
-		logOutput = ioutil.Discard
-	}
+	logLevel := globalLogLevel()
 
-	if logPath := os.Getenv(EnvLogFile); logPath != "" {
+	if logPath := os.Getenv(envLogFile); logPath != "" {
 		f, err := os.OpenFile(logPath, syscall.O_CREAT|syscall.O_RDWR|syscall.O_APPEND, 0666)
 		if err != nil {
 			fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "Error opening log file: %v\n", err)
@@ -83,38 +85,77 @@ func NewHCLogger(name string) hclog.Logger {
 	}
 
 	return hclog.NewInterceptLogger(&hclog.LoggerOptions{
-		Name:   name,
-		Level:  hclog.LevelFromString(logLevel),
-		Output: logOutput,
+		Name:              name,
+		Level:             logLevel,
+		Output:            logOutput,
+		IndependentLevels: true,
 	})
 }
 
-func NewProviderLogger() hclog.Logger {
-	return logger.Named("plugin")
+// NewLogger returns a new logger based in the current global logger, with the
+// given name appended.
+func NewLogger(name string) hclog.Logger {
+	if name == "" {
+		panic("logger name required")
+	}
+	return logger.Named(name)
+}
+
+// NewProviderLogger returns a logger for the provider plugin, possibly with a
+// different log level from the global logger.
+func NewProviderLogger(prefix string) hclog.Logger {
+	l := logger.Named(prefix + "provider")
+
+	level := providerLogLevel()
+	logger.Debug("created provider logger", "level", level)
+
+	l.SetLevel(level)
+	return l
 }
 
 // CurrentLogLevel returns the current log level string based the environment vars
 func CurrentLogLevel() string {
-	envLevel := strings.ToUpper(os.Getenv(EnvLog))
+	return strings.ToUpper(globalLogLevel().String())
+}
+
+func providerLogLevel() hclog.Level {
+	providerEnvLevel := strings.ToUpper(os.Getenv(envLogProvider))
+	if providerEnvLevel == "" {
+		providerEnvLevel = strings.ToUpper(os.Getenv(envLog))
+	}
+
+	return parseLogLevel(providerEnvLevel)
+}
+
+func globalLogLevel() hclog.Level {
+	envLevel := strings.ToUpper(os.Getenv(envLog))
+	if envLevel == "" {
+		envLevel = strings.ToUpper(os.Getenv(envLogCore))
+
+	}
+	return parseLogLevel(envLevel)
+}
+
+func parseLogLevel(envLevel string) hclog.Level {
 	if envLevel == "" {
-		return ""
+		return hclog.Off
 	}
 
-	logLevel := "TRACE"
+	logLevel := hclog.Trace
 	if isValidLogLevel(envLevel) {
-		logLevel = envLevel
+		logLevel = hclog.LevelFromString(envLevel)
 	} else {
-		logger.Warn(fmt.Sprintf("Invalid log level: %q. Defaulting to level: TRACE. Valid levels are: %+v",
-			envLevel, ValidLevels))
+		fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "[WARN] Invalid log level: %q. Defaulting to level: TRACE. Valid levels are: %+v",
+			envLevel, ValidLevels)
 	}
 
 	return logLevel
 }
 
 // IsDebugOrHigher returns whether or not the current log level is debug or trace
 func IsDebugOrHigher() bool {
-	level := string(CurrentLogLevel())
-	return level == "DEBUG" || level == "TRACE"
+	level := globalLogLevel()
+	return level == hclog.Debug || level == hclog.Trace
 }
 
 func isValidLogLevel(level string) bool {

internal/logging/panic.go

@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ import (
 	"io"
 	"io/ioutil"
 	"os"
-	"strings"
 
 	"github.com/mitchellh/panicwrap"
 )
@@ -67,6 +66,6 @@ func PanicHandler(tmpLogPath string) panicwrap.HandlerFunc {
 		// Tell the user a crash occurred in some helpful way that
 		// they'll hopefully notice.
 		fmt.Printf("\n\n")
-		fmt.Printf(strings.TrimSpace(panicOutput), f.Name())
+		fmt.Printf(panicOutput, f.Name())
 	}
 }

main.go

@@ -95,7 +95,6 @@ func wrappedMain() int {
 	if tmpLogPath != "" {
 		f, err := os.OpenFile(tmpLogPath, os.O_RDWR|os.O_APPEND, 0666)
 		if err == nil {
-			defer os.Remove(f.Name())
 			defer f.Close()
 
 			log.Printf("[DEBUG] Adding temp file log sink: %s", f.Name())