From 5793ff636684a0fd1f53e202aea2e7e4dc07de1e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sven Rebhan <36194019+srebhan@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2024 22:20:42 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] fix(logger): Avoid setting the log-format default too early
 (#16108)

---
 config/config.go | 1 -
 logger/logger.go | 4 ++++
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/config/config.go b/config/config.go
index 4f6da0c9f..ac242e532 100644
--- a/config/config.go
+++ b/config/config.go
@@ -123,7 +123,6 @@ func NewConfig() *Config {
 			Interval:                   Duration(10 * time.Second),
 			RoundInterval:              true,
 			FlushInterval:              Duration(10 * time.Second),
-			LogFormat:                  "text",
 			LogfileRotationMaxArchives: 5,
 		},
 
diff --git a/logger/logger.go b/logger/logger.go
index 535f4150b..c344838c0 100644
--- a/logger/logger.go
+++ b/logger/logger.go
@@ -227,6 +227,10 @@ func SetupLogging(cfg *Config) error {
 		return fmt.Errorf("invalid deprecated 'logtarget' setting %q", cfg.LogTarget)
 	}
 
+	if cfg.LogFormat == "" {
+		cfg.LogFormat = "text"
+	}
+
 	if cfg.Debug {
 		cfg.logLevel = telegraf.Debug
 	}