diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index acd2377f2b..645527eaef 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 - Update PeriodicExportingMetricReader to never call export() concurrently
   ([#2873](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python/pull/2873))
+- Add param for `indent` size to `LogRecord.to_json()`
+  ([#2870](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python/pull/2870))
 
 ## [1.12.0-0.33b0](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python/releases/tag/v1.12.0-0.33b0) - 2022-08-08
 
diff --git a/opentelemetry-sdk/src/opentelemetry/sdk/_logs/__init__.py b/opentelemetry-sdk/src/opentelemetry/sdk/_logs/__init__.py
index 22ee11aafe..31d4e15f55 100644
--- a/opentelemetry-sdk/src/opentelemetry/sdk/_logs/__init__.py
+++ b/opentelemetry-sdk/src/opentelemetry/sdk/_logs/__init__.py
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ def __eq__(self, other: object) -> bool:
             return NotImplemented
         return self.__dict__ == other.__dict__
 
-    def to_json(self) -> str:
+    def to_json(self, indent=4) -> str:
         return json.dumps(
             {
                 "body": self.body,
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ def to_json(self) -> str:
                 if self.resource
                 else "",
             },
-            indent=4,
+            indent=indent,
         )