diff --git a/internal/pkg/commands/loglevel.go b/internal/pkg/commands/loglevel.go
index 7887622..2bdd5cf 100644
--- a/internal/pkg/commands/loglevel.go
+++ b/internal/pkg/commands/loglevel.go
@@ -221,7 +221,9 @@
 func (options *ListLogLevelsOpts) Execute(args []string) error {
 
 	var (
-		data           []model.LogLevel
+		// Initialize to empty as opposed to nil so that -o json will
+		// display empty list and not null VOL-2742
+		data           []model.LogLevel = []model.LogLevel{}
 		componentList  []string
 		logLevelConfig map[string]string
 		err            error