Unable to update log format or level in lambdas defined with serverless framework

I have a serverless.yml which contains definition and deployment for multiple lambdas and also the corresponding api gateway. However, I cannot get the log and log level to be applied to the lambda.

The below is added so that the log config. can be applied to all the lambdas, but it didn’t work.

provider:
  name: aws
  lambdaHashingVersion: 20201221
  apiGateway:
    minimumCompressionSize: 1024
  runtime: nodejs16.x
  memorySize: 512 # in MB, default is 1024
  timeout: 10 # in seconds, default is 6
  logRetentionInDays: ${file(./serverless_properties.yml):${self:provider.stage}.LOG_RETENTION_DAYS, "90"}
  logs:
    lambda:
      logFormat: JSON
      applicationLogLevel: ERROR
      systemLogLevel: INFO

    httpApi:
      format: '{"request_id": "$context.requestId", "ip": "$context.identity.sourceIp", "requestTime":"$context.requestTime", "routeKey":"$context.routeKey", "status":"$context.status", "auth_error": "$context.authorizer.error", "error": "$context.error.message", "caller": "$context.identity.caller", "user": "$context.identity.user", "integration_error": "$context.integration.error" }'

I also tried the following; To configure the log level and stuff for a particular function, and it didn’t work as well.

functions:
  get_releases_test_auth:
    handler: main.GetReleases
    events:
      - httpApi:
          method: get
          path: "/test_auth/releases"
          authorizer:
            name: azure_ad_auth
    logs:
      # The Log Format to be used for all lambda functions (default: Text)
      logFormat: JSON
      # The Application Log Level to be used, This can only be set if `logFormat` is set to `JSON`
      applicationLogLevel: ERROR
      # The System Log Level to be used, This can only be set if `logFormat` is set to `JSON`
      systemLogLevel: INFO

My framework version is defined as frameworkVersion: ^2.35.0 which I don’t think would be an issue, any help is really appreciated.