Yes, there is away. Just add the following piece of code before creating the SparkContext.
import org.apache.log4j.Logger import org.apache.log4j.Level Logger.getLogger("org").setLevel(Level.OFF) Logger.getLogger("akka").setLevel(Level.OFF) Thanks Best Regards On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 12:48 AM, Ron Ayoub <ronalday...@live.com> wrote: > I have not yet gotten to the point of running standalone. In my case I'm > still working on the initial product and I'm running directly in Eclipse > and I've compiled using the Spark maven project since the downloadable > spark binaries require Hadoop. With that said, I'm running fine and I have > things working but the info logging is so verbose in Eclipse that my own > console logging ultimately gets drowned out. Is there a programmatic way to > tell Spark to stop logging so much to the console? > > Thanks. >