diff --git a/.requirements b/.requirements
index 870f2c6f4f4..26b43ba859f 100644
--- a/.requirements
+++ b/.requirements
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ OPENSSL=3.2.1
 PCRE=10.43
 LIBEXPAT=2.5.0
 
-LUA_KONG_NGINX_MODULE=4e0133a955cb46c1dda18614bf91b4cb69874c63 # 0.9.1
+LUA_KONG_NGINX_MODULE=691ba795ced07364d491e8abbdf0c8c8d3778c14 # 0.10.0
 LUA_RESTY_LMDB=7d2581cbe30cde18a8482d820c227ca0845c0ded # 1.4.2
 LUA_RESTY_EVENTS=8448a92cec36ac04ea522e78f6496ba03c9b1fd8 # 0.2.0
 LUA_RESTY_WEBSOCKET=60eafc3d7153bceb16e6327074e0afc3d94b1316 # 0.4.0
diff --git a/changelog/unreleased/kong/bump-lua-kong-nginx-module.yml b/changelog/unreleased/kong/bump-lua-kong-nginx-module.yml
index 0127f7159ac..b66d912e4c3 100644
--- a/changelog/unreleased/kong/bump-lua-kong-nginx-module.yml
+++ b/changelog/unreleased/kong/bump-lua-kong-nginx-module.yml
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-message: "Bumped lua-kong-nginx-module from 0.8.0 to 0.9.1"
+message: "Bumped lua-kong-nginx-module from 0.8.0 to 0.10.0"
 type: dependency
 scope: Core
diff --git a/kong/api/routes/debug.lua b/kong/api/routes/debug.lua
index 79fb8fc0428..dade7628d0c 100644
--- a/kong/api/routes/debug.lua
+++ b/kong/api/routes/debug.lua
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ local function handle_put_log_level(self, broadcast)
     return kong.response.exit(400, { message = "timeout must be greater than or equal to 0" })
   end
 
-  local cur_log_level = get_log_level(LOG_LEVELS[kong.configuration.log_level])
+  local cur_log_level = get_log_level()
 
   if cur_log_level == log_level then
     local message = "log level is already " .. self.params.log_level
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ end
 local routes = {
   ["/debug/node/log-level"] = {
     GET = function(self)
-      local cur_level = get_log_level(LOG_LEVELS[kong.configuration.log_level])
+      local cur_level = get_log_level()
 
       if type(LOG_LEVELS[cur_level]) ~= "string" then
         local message = "unknown log level: " .. tostring(cur_level)
diff --git a/kong/runloop/log_level.lua b/kong/runloop/log_level.lua
index 5f253375246..3deaa5131c3 100644
--- a/kong/runloop/log_level.lua
+++ b/kong/runloop/log_level.lua
@@ -34,8 +34,7 @@ end
 local function init_handler()
   local shm_log_level = ngx.shared.kong:get(constants.DYN_LOG_LEVEL_KEY)
 
-  local cur_log_level = kong_log.get_log_level(
-                          constants.LOG_LEVELS[kong.configuration.log_level])
+  local cur_log_level = kong_log.get_log_level()
   local timeout = (tonumber(
                     ngx.shared.kong:get(constants.DYN_LOG_LEVEL_TIMEOUT_AT_KEY)) or 0)
                   - ngx.time()