[kbn/pm] log levels

packages/kbn-dev-utils/src/tooling_log/index.ts

@@ -19,5 +19,5 @@
 
 export { ToolingLog } from './tooling_log';
 export { ToolingLogTextWriter, ToolingLogTextWriterConfig } from './tooling_log_text_writer';
-export { pickLevelFromFlags, parseLogLevel, LogLevel } from './log_levels';
+export { pickLevelFromFlags, parseLogLevel, LogLevel, ParsedLogLevel } from './log_levels';
 export { ToolingLogCollectingWriter } from './tooling_log_collecting_writer';

packages/kbn-dev-utils/src/tooling_log/tooling_log_collecting_writer.ts

@@ -18,13 +18,14 @@
  */
 
 import { ToolingLogTextWriter } from './tooling_log_text_writer';
+import { LogLevel } from './log_levels';
 
 export class ToolingLogCollectingWriter extends ToolingLogTextWriter {
   messages: string[] = [];
 
-  constructor() {
+  constructor(level: LogLevel = 'verbose') {
     super({
-      level: 'verbose',
+      level,
       writeTo: {
         write: (msg) => {
           // trim trailing new line

packages/kbn-dev-utils/src/tooling_log/tooling_log_text_writer.ts

@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ export interface ToolingLogTextWriterConfig {
 
 function shouldWriteType(level: ParsedLogLevel, type: MessageTypes) {
   if (type === 'write') {
-    return true;
+    return level.name !== 'silent';
   }
 
   return Boolean(level.flags[type === 'success' ? 'info' : type]);