Structured (JSON) logging support?

[matt-deboer]

I'm noticing that for my command-issuer.keyfactor.com/v1alpha1/Issuer resource deployed in GKE, all logs appear at "severity: ERROR", with an embedded log line with actual severity.

I'm wondering if there's some hidden option to enable json formatted logs for ingestion by logging systems that expect structured logs (like google cloud logging)?

Here's an example of one such expanded message in the google cloud console:

{
    insertId: "*****"
    labels: {
        compute.googleapis.com/resource_name: "******"
        k8s-pod/app_kubernetes_io/instance: "command-cert-manager-issuer"
        k8s-pod/app_kubernetes_io/name: "command-cert-manager-issuer"
        k8s-pod/pod-template-hash: "****"
        logging.gke.io/top_level_controller_name: "command-cert-manager-issuer"
        logging.gke.io/top_level_controller_type: "Deployment"
    }
    logName: "projects/*******/logs/stderr"
    receiveTimestamp: "2025-09-15T01:57:31.060623082Z"
    resource: {
        labels: {
            cluster_name: "******"
            container_name: "command-cert-manager-issuer"
            location: "*****"
            namespace_name: "command-issuer-system"
            pod_name: "*****"
            project_id: "*****"
        }
        type: "k8s_container"
    }
    severity: "ERROR"
    textPayload: "2025-09-15T01:57:26Z	INFO	Configuration was valid - Successfully generated server config	{"controller": "issuer", "controllerGroup": "command-issuer.keyfactor.com", "controllerKind": "Issuer", "Issuer": {"name":"keyfactor-command-issuer","namespace":"******"}, "namespace": "******", "name": "*****", "reconcileID": "*****", "authMethod": "basic", "hostname": "*****.keyfactorpki.com", "apiPath": "KeyfactorAPI"}"
    timestamp: "2025-09-15T01:57:26.947824059Z"
}