Phoenix Logger does not take in consideration the event_prefix

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I encountered a problem recently trying to listen for Phoenix.Logger events in Phoenix Dasbboard.
Since I have multiple phoenix applications running into my all as separate umbrella applications I appended specific event prefix to Plug.Telemetry like this:

plug(Plug.Telemetry, event_prefix: [:payments_api, :phoenix, :endpoint])

Telemetry plug is taking in consideration the event prefix correctly. Phoenix.Logger instead does not. Handlers are hardcoded and the event names can not be configured as you can see here: phoenix/logger.ex at d106fbef5366761669c7dbc34931996fc5a30c30 · phoenixframework/phoenix · GitHub.
Should we not be able to configure the logger prefix also? I want your opinion before spamming phoenix repo with pull requests.

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Yes, the Phoenix logger only handles its own prefix. If you are using another one, we assume it is because you don’t want Phoenix to hook into it. I am not sure this is something we would change. You can always plug in your own logging too!

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Having multiple Phoenix applications in the same VM is a common scenario and collecting separate metrics for each it’s required in this case. Being able to append a prefix like Plug.Telemetry does seems like a nice way to do it in my opinion instead of duplicating code for entire Phoenix.Logger.