OpenGL Programming Guide: The Official Guide to Learning OpenGL, Version 4.3, Eighth Edition

Filtering Messages

Messages are filtered before they are sent to your callback function. When you create a debug context, by default, only medium- and high-severity messages are sent to your callback function. You can enable and disable various types of messages, filter messages by severity, and even turn individual messages on and off using their identifiers. To do this, use glDebugMessageControl().

void glDebugMessageControl(GLenum source, GLenum type,                         GLenum severity, GLsizei count,                         const GLuint* ids,                         Glboolean enabled);

Establishes a message filter that is applied to subsequently generated messages. If enabled is GL_TRUE, then generated messages matching the filter ...