Github user ijokarumawak commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/nifi/pull/3122#discussion_r230257806 --- Diff: nifi-nar-bundles/nifi-standard-bundle/nifi-standard-processors/src/test/java/org/apache/nifi/processors/standard/TestLogMessage.java --- @@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ MockComponentLog getMockComponentLog() { public void before() throws InitializationException { testableLogMessage = new TestableLogMessage(); runner = TestRunners.newTestRunner(testableLogMessage); - + runner.setValidateExpressionUsage(false); --- End diff -- Hmm, I think changing logLevel based on expression makes sense. For example, if you want to debug for a particular type of FlowFiles, you'd use EL to write WARN level log for specific attribute value and use TRACE/DEBUG for others to minimize the noise. I don't think specifying log level by text is a critical issue..
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