Loggers work similarly to the pipelines of the OpenTelemetry collector configuration because they define which exporters (in this case providers) to use. However, they differ by defining a custom configuration that can be used to control how XProtect services initialize their logging system, like the level of detail and the language to use.

Each logger handles a specific kind of logging behavior and has a unique name that XProtect services expect to find. If those aren’t there, logging won’t work as expected.