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Removing the LoggerBackends.Console at runtime does not work

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
elixir
Domain
observability

Research direction

Start at the LoggerBackends.remove entry point using LoggerBackends.Console, then reproduce the runtime removal shown in the issue. Compare the behavior with the attempted :console and Logger.Backends.Console forms. Done means removing the console backend prevents further console logging at runtime.

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Description

I am trying to disable the Console backend at runtime (and replace it with my own backend), but that does not seem to work and the application continues logging to the console. I am using:

LoggerBackends.remove(LoggerBackends.Console)

I also tried passing :console and Logger.Backends.Console

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Elixir
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