# Access THE log file

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/access-the-log-file/169555>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [February 22, 2019, 10:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/access-the-log-file/169555 "2019-02-22T10:33:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![robinroos](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/robinroos/32/41232_2.png) [@robinroos](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/robinroos)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2019, 10:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/access-the-log-file/169555/1 "2019-02-22T10:33:44Z")

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My services are deployed into Docker Swarm and I have access to Kibana but no access directly to the containers.

Is it possible to get THE log file from Kibana?

I'm not looking for analysis. I'm not looking for queries. I'm not looking for CSV. I just want the (current) log file.

Thanks, Robin.

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**Author:** ![Marius\_Dragomir](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/marius_dragomir/32/42087_2.png) [@Marius\_Dragomir](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Marius_Dragomir)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2019, 11:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/access-the-log-file/169555/2 "2019-02-22T11:50:26Z")

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Since we've set the base OS as CentOS in our Docker images, the logs should be in the default location for CentOS(i think it's in journalctl), unless you've specified another log path in the Kibana config.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2019, 11:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/access-the-log-file/169555/3 "2019-03-22T11:50:29Z")

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