How to set up logging level for Spark application in IntelliJ IDEA?

Question

I\'m working on a Scala project in IntelliJ that was created through SBT. The project has Spark as one of its dependencies. I\'m still in the development phase so everything is

Answer 1

I would love to figure out how to do this with a project local properties file (an example file would be nice), but I was able to get this done in Spark 2.2 with the following code:

import org.apache.log4j.{Level, Logger}

object MySparkApp {

    def main(args: Array[String]): Unit = {
      Logger.getLogger("org.apache.spark").setLevel(Level.WARN)