diff --git a/cpp/CMakeLists.txt b/cpp/CMakeLists.txt
index e176f802bf..0e9dfa04d0 100644
--- a/cpp/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/cpp/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -602,6 +602,8 @@ if(BUILD_CUML_CPP_LIBRARY)
   # These are always private:
   list(APPEND _cuml_cpp_private_libs
     raft::raft
+    rmm::rmm_logger_impl
+    raft::raft_logger_impl
     $<TARGET_NAME_IF_EXISTS:GPUTreeShap::GPUTreeShap>
     $<$<BOOL:${LINK_CUFFT}>:CUDA::cufft${_ctk_fft_static_suffix}>
     ${TREELITE_LIBS}
@@ -629,7 +631,6 @@ if(BUILD_CUML_CPP_LIBRARY)
     PUBLIC  rmm::rmm rmm::rmm_logger ${CUVS_LIB}
             ${_cuml_cpp_public_libs}
     PRIVATE ${_cuml_cpp_private_libs}
-                   rmm::rmm_logger_impl
   )
 
   # If we export the libdmlc symbols, they can lead to weird crashes with other
diff --git a/cpp/bench/sg/kmeans.cu b/cpp/bench/sg/kmeans.cu
index e974163599..f6524b245a 100644
--- a/cpp/bench/sg/kmeans.cu
+++ b/cpp/bench/sg/kmeans.cu
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ std::vector<Params> getInputs()
   p.kmeans.init                            = ML::kmeans::KMeansParams::InitMethod(0);
   p.kmeans.max_iter                        = 300;
   p.kmeans.tol                             = 1e-4;
-  p.kmeans.verbosity                       = RAFT_LEVEL_INFO;
+  p.kmeans.verbosity                       = raft::level_enum::info;
   p.kmeans.metric                          = cuvs::distance::DistanceType::L2Expanded;
   p.kmeans.rng_state                       = raft::random::RngState(p.blobs.seed);
   p.kmeans.inertia_check                   = true;
diff --git a/cpp/test/CMakeLists.txt b/cpp/test/CMakeLists.txt
index e61a32cc3b..0576217965 100644
--- a/cpp/test/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/cpp/test/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -57,8 +57,9 @@ function(ConfigureTest)
     $<$<BOOL:${LINK_CUFFT}>:CUDA::cufft${_ctk_static_suffix_cufft}>
     rmm::rmm
     rmm::rmm_logger
-    rmm::rmm_logger_impl
     raft::raft
+    raft::raft_logger
+    test_logger_impls
     GTest::gtest
     GTest::gtest_main
     GTest::gmock
@@ -107,6 +108,8 @@ function(ConfigureTest)
 
 endfunction()
 
+add_library(test_logger_impls OBJECT)
+target_link_libraries(test_logger_impls PRIVATE rmm::rmm_logger_impl raft::raft_logger_impl)
 
 ##############################################################################
 # - build ml_test executable -------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/python/cuml/cuml/cluster/kmeans.pyx b/python/cuml/cuml/cluster/kmeans.pyx
index 8d4d9ffe99..6be09f6912 100644
--- a/python/cuml/cuml/cluster/kmeans.pyx
+++ b/python/cuml/cuml/cluster/kmeans.pyx
@@ -36,6 +36,10 @@ IF GPUBUILD == 1:
     from cuml.metrics.distance_type cimport DistanceType
     from cuml.cluster.kmeans_utils cimport params as KMeansParams
     from cuml.cluster.kmeans_utils cimport KMeansPlusPlus, Random, Array
+    from cuml.cluster cimport kmeans_utils
+
+    # Avoid potential future conflicts with cuml's level enum
+    ctypedef kmeans_utils.level_enum raft_level_enum
 
 from cuml.internals.array import CumlArray
 from cuml.common.array_descriptor import CumlArrayDescriptor
@@ -205,7 +209,7 @@ class KMeans(UniversalBase,
             params.init = self._params_init
             params.max_iter = <int>self.max_iter
             params.tol = <double>self.tol
-            params.verbosity = <int>self.verbose
+            params.verbosity = <raft_level_enum>(<int>self.verbose)
             params.rng_state.seed = self.random_state
             params.metric = DistanceType.L2Expanded   # distance metric as squared L2: @todo - support other metrics # noqa: E501
             params.batch_samples = <int>self.max_samples_per_batch
diff --git a/python/cuml/cuml/cluster/kmeans_utils.pxd b/python/cuml/cuml/cluster/kmeans_utils.pxd
index c4c10c4b74..841ea2d3dc 100644
--- a/python/cuml/cuml/cluster/kmeans_utils.pxd
+++ b/python/cuml/cuml/cluster/kmeans_utils.pxd
@@ -24,6 +24,18 @@ cdef extern from "cuml/cluster/kmeans.hpp" namespace \
         "cuvs::cluster::kmeans::params":
     enum InitMethod:
         KMeansPlusPlus, Random, Array
+
+cdef extern from "raft/core/logger.hpp" namespace "raft":
+    cdef enum class level_enum:
+        trace
+        debug
+        info
+        warn
+        error
+        critical
+        off
+        n_levels
+
 cdef extern from "cuvs/cluster/kmeans.hpp" namespace \
         "cuvs::cluster::kmeans":
     cdef struct params:
@@ -31,7 +43,7 @@ cdef extern from "cuvs/cluster/kmeans.hpp" namespace \
         InitMethod init
         int max_iter,
         double tol,
-        int verbosity,
+        level_enum verbosity,
         RngState rng_state,
         DistanceType metric,
         int n_init,