[🐛 Bug]: [GRID] logging.properties is ignored when trying to remove stack trace errors from Logs

[KrzysztofC]

What happened?

When using:
-Djava.util.logging.config.file=/opt/logging.properties
which contains:
handlers=java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler
java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler.level=INFO
java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler.formatter=java.util.logging.SimpleFormatter
java.util.logging.SimpleFormatter.format=%1$tF %1$tT.%1$tL %4$s: %3$s %5$s %n

this works in other Java app that uses java.util.logging for logging, but it has zero effect on Grid Logs.

How can we reproduce the issue?

Create logging.properties file with below contents:
handlers=java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler
java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler.level=INFO
java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler.formatter=java.util.logging.SimpleFormatter
java.util.logging.SimpleFormatter.format=%1$tF %1$tT.%1$tL %4$s: %3$s %5$s %n

start Grid Hub or Node with -Djava.util.logging.config.file=/your_path/logging.properties

Relevant log output

Expecting to NOT see stack trace in Logs such as these:
10:46:37.229 WARN [SeleniumSpanExporter$1.lambda$export$1] - org.openqa.selenium.SessionNotCreatedException: Could not start a new session. Response code 500. Message: session not created: DevToolsActivePort file doesn't exist
Host info: host: 'selenium-grid-4-node-72-2prgt', ip: 'x.x.x.x'
Build info: version: '4.21.0', revision: '79ed462ef4'
System info: os.name: 'Linux', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '4.18.0-372.71.1.el8_6.x86_64', java.version: '17.0.11'
Driver info: driver.version: unknown
                at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ProtocolHandshake.createSession(ProtocolHandshake.java:114)
                at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ProtocolHandshake.createSession(ProtocolHandshake.java:75)
                at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ProtocolHandshake.createSession(ProtocolHandshake.java:61)
                at org.openqa.selenium.grid.node.config.DriverServiceSessionFactory.apply(DriverServiceSessionFactory.java:161)
                at org.openqa.selenium.grid.node.config.DriverServiceSessionFactory.apply(DriverServiceSessionFactory.java:71)
                at org.openqa.selenium.grid.node.local.SessionSlot.apply(SessionSlot.java:147)
                at org.openqa.selenium.grid.node.local.LocalNode.newSession(LocalNode.java:469)
                at org.openqa.selenium.grid.node.NewNodeSession.execute(NewNodeSession.java:50)
                at org.openqa.selenium.remote.http.Route$TemplatizedRoute.handle(Route.java:192)
                at org.openqa.selenium.remote.http.Route.execute(Route.java:69)
                at org.openqa.selenium.grid.security.RequiresSecretFilter.lambda$apply$0(RequiresSecretFilter.java:62)
                at org.openqa.selenium.remote.tracing.SpanWrappedHttpHandler.execute(SpanWrappedHttpHandler.java:87)
                at org.openqa.selenium.remote.http.Filter$1.execute(Filter.java:63)
                at org.openqa.selenium.remote.http.Route$CombinedRoute.handle(Route.java:360)
                at org.openqa.selenium.remote.http.Route.execute(Route.java:69)
                at org.openqa.selenium.grid.node.Node.execute(Node.java:270)
                at org.openqa.selenium.remote.http.Route$CombinedRoute.handle(Route.java:360)
                at org.openqa.selenium.remote.http.Route.execute(Route.java:69)
                at org.openqa.selenium.remote.AddWebDriverSpecHeaders.lambda$apply$0(AddWebDriverSpecHeaders.java:35)
                at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ErrorFilter.lambda$apply$0(ErrorFilter.java:44)
                at org.openqa.selenium.remote.http.Filter$1.execute(Filter.java:63)
                at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ErrorFilter.lambda$apply$0(ErrorFilter.java:44)
                at org.openqa.selenium.remote.http.Filter$1.execute(Filter.java:63)
                at org.openqa.selenium.netty.server.SeleniumHandler.lambda$channelRead0$0(SeleniumHandler.java:44)
                at java.base/java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:539)
                at java.base/java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:264)
                at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1136)
                at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:635)
                at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:842)

Operating System

RH8 and Win10

Selenium version

4.21.0

What are the browser(s) and version(s) where you see this issue?

N/A

What are the browser driver(s) and version(s) where you see this issue?

N/A

Are you using Selenium Grid?

4.21.0

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Thank you!

[JHeflinger]

I'm noticing that this issue stems from the fact that any logging configuration with a logging.properties file is overwritten and replaced with the custom Selenium formatters and handlers (See configureLogging() function on line 96 of selenium/java/src/org/openqa/selenium/grid/log/LoggingOptions.java). This can be fixed by simply checking if the handlers property if the LogManager is null or not, but is it an intention of selenium to not allow custom configured logging?

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