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Is there a good way to log to Prefect from a jupyter notebook running in `ExecuteNotebook`?

Hi Josh, are you looking for a way to log directly from cells in the executing notebook? Or just log the shell output of nbconvert (which is used to execute the notebook).

Is there a way to get the cell output into the Prefect logs? Right now, I don’t have any logs so can’t debug failed notebooks easily.

I haven't tested, but using the prefect logger might work without any extra configuration:

```from prefect.utilities.logging import get_logger

logger = get_logger()
<http://logger.info|logger.info>("This may work from within a cell")```

It looks like you can configure papermill to output the notebook logs during execution, the `ExecuteNotebook` task could be modified to improve the logs here. I'll open an issue to track that.

<@ULVA73B9P> open "Improve logging in `ExecuteNotebook` task"

<https://github.com/PrefectHQ/prefect/issues/4265>