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Configure Log4J for Spark

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Show Error Messages Only

When you run Spark or PySpark in a Jupyter/Lab notebook, it is recommended that you show ERROR messages only. Otherwise, there might be too much logging information polluting your notebook. You can set the log level of Spark to ERROR using the following line of code.

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spark.sparkContext.setLogLevel("ERROR")

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