diff --git a/log4j2.xml b/log4j2.xml
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-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<Configuration packages="org.graylog2.log4j" shutdownHook="disable">
-    <Appenders>
-        <Console name="STDOUT" target="SYSTEM_OUT">
-            <PatternLayout pattern="%d %-5p: %c - %m%n"/>
-        </Console>
-
-        <!-- Internal Graylog log appender. Please do not disable. This makes internal log messages available via REST calls. -->
-        <Memory name="graylog-internal-logs" bufferSizeBytes="10MB">
-            <PatternLayout pattern="%d{yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSXXX} %-5p [%c{1}] %m%n"/>
-        </Memory>
-
-    </Appenders>
-    <Loggers>
-        <!-- Application Loggers -->
-        <Logger name="org.graylog2" level="info"/>
-        <Logger name="com.github.joschi.jadconfig" level="warn"/>
-        <!-- Prevent DEBUG message about Lucene Expressions not found. -->
-        <Logger name="org.elasticsearch.script" level="warn"/>
-        <!-- Disable messages from the version check -->
-        <Logger name="org.graylog2.periodical.VersionCheckThread" level="off"/>
-        <!-- Silence chatty natty -->
-        <Logger name="com.joestelmach.natty.Parser" level="warn"/>
-        <!-- Silence Kafka log chatter -->
-        <Logger name="org.graylog.shaded.kafka09.log.Log" level="warn"/>
-        <Logger name="org.graylog.shaded.kafka09.log.OffsetIndex" level="warn"/>
-        <Logger name="org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.ConsumerConfig" level="warn"/>
-        <Logger name="org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.ProducerConfig" level="warn"/>
-        <!-- Silence useless session validation messages -->
-        <Logger name="org.apache.shiro.session.mgt.AbstractValidatingSessionManager" level="warn"/>
-        <!-- Silence informational Azure SDK messages -->
-        <Logger name="com.azure" level="warn"/>
-        <Logger name="reactor.core.publisher.Operators" level="off"/>
-        <Logger name="com.azure.messaging.eventhubs.PartitionPumpManager" level="off"/>
-        <Logger name="com.azure.core.amqp.implementation.ReactorReceiver" level="off"/>
-        <Logger name="com.azure.core.amqp.implementation.ReactorDispatcher" level="off"/>
-        <Logger name="com.azure.core.amqp.implementation.MessageFlux" level="off"/>
-        <!-- Silence Apache Hadoop/Avro log chatter -->
-        <Logger name="org.apache.hadoop" level="warn"/>
-        <Logger name="org.apache.parquet.hadoop.InternalParquetRecordReader" level="warn"/>
-        <Logger name="org.apache.avro.Schema" level="error"/>
-        <!-- Silence Selenium log chatter -->
-        <Logger name="org.openqa.selenium.devtools.Connection" level="warn"/>
-        <!-- Silence Apache Iceberg log chatter -->
-        <Logger name="org.apache.iceberg.BaseMetastoreCatalog" level="warn"/>
-        <Logger name="org.apache.iceberg.BaseMetastoreTableOperations" level="warn"/>
-        <Logger name="org.apache.iceberg.CatalogUtil" level="warn"/>
-        <Logger name="org.apache.iceberg.IncrementalFileCleanup" level="warn"/>
-        <Logger name="org.apache.iceberg.SnapshotProducer" level="warn"/>
-        <Logger name="org.apache.iceberg.SnapshotScan" level="warn"/>
-        <Logger name="org.apache.iceberg.aws.s3.S3InputStream" level="warn">
-            <RegexFilter regex=".*An error occurred while aborting the stream.*" onMatch="DENY" onMismatch="ACCEPT"/>
-        </Logger>
-        <Logger name="org.apache.iceberg.metrics.LoggingMetricsReporter" level="warn"/>
-        <Logger name="org.graylog2.opamp" level="debug"/>
-        <!-- Silence AWS Kinesis log chatter -->
-        <Logger name="software.amazon.kinesis" level="warn"/>
-        <Root level="info">
-            <AppenderRef ref="STDOUT"/>
-            <AppenderRef ref="graylog-internal-logs"/>
-        </Root>
-    </Loggers>
-</Configuration>