# APM Server logs not being generated
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/apm-server-logs-not-being-generated/195776
**Category:** APM
**Tags:** server
**Created:** [August 19, 2019, 4:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/apm-server-logs-not-being-generated/195776 "2019-08-19T16:10:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Vishnu\_Singhal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Vishnu_Singhal)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2019, 4:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/apm-server-logs-not-being-generated/195776/1 "2019-08-19T16:10:40Z")
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**Kibana version** : NA
**Elasticsearch version** : NA
**APM Server version** : 7.1.2
**APM Agent language and version** : Java
**Browser version** : NA
**Original install method (e.g. download page, yum, deb, from source, etc.) and version**:
```auto
==========Following configuration -=======================
#================================ Logging ======================================
#
# There are three options for the log output: syslog, file, stderr.
# Under Windows systems, the log files are per default sent to the file output,
# under all other system per default to syslog.
# Sets log level. The default log level is info.
# Available log levels are: error, warning, info, debug
logging.level: debug
# Enable debug output for selected components. To enable all selectors use ["*"]
# Other available selectors are "beat", "publish", "service"
# Multiple selectors can be chained.
#logging.selectors: [colortokens]
# Send all logging output to syslog. The default is false.
#logging.to_syslog: true
# If enabled, apm-server periodically logs its internal metrics that have changed
# in the last period. For each metric that changed, the delta from the value at
# the beginning of the period is logged. Also, the total values for
# all non-zero internal metrics are logged on shutdown. The default is true.
logging.metrics.enabled: false
# The period after which to log the internal metrics. The default is 30s.
#logging.metrics.period: 30s
# Logging to rotating files. Set logging.to_files to false to disable logging to
# files.
logging.to_files: true
logging.files:
# Configure the path where the logs are written. The default is the logs directory
# under the home path (the binary location).
path: /var/log/apm-server
# The name of the files where the logs are written to.
name: apm-server
# Configure log file size limit. If limit is reached, log file will be
# automatically rotated
rotateeverybytes: 10485760 # = 10MB
# Number of rotated log files to keep. Oldest files will be deleted first.
keepfiles: 7
# The permissions mask to apply when rotating log files. The default value is 0600.
# Must be a valid Unix-style file permissions mask expressed in octal notation.
permissions: 0600
# Enable log file rotation on time intervals in addition to size-based rotation.
# Intervals must be at least 1s. Values of 1m, 1h, 24h, 7*24h, 30*24h, and 365*24h
# are boundary-aligned with minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years as
# reported by the local system clock. All other intervals are calculated from the
# Unix epoch. Defaults to disabled.
#interval: 0
# Set to true to log messages in json format.
#logging.json: false
============================================================
```
I dont see anything in /var/log/
**Fresh install or upgraded from other version?**
**Is there anything special in your setup?** For example, are you using the Logstash or Kafka outputs? Are you using a load balancer in front of the APM Servers? Have you changed index pattern, generated custom templates, changed agent configuration etc.
**Description of the problem including expected versus actual behaviour. Please include screenshots (if relevant)**:
**Steps to reproduce** :
1. enabled logging in the apm-server.yml file with above configuration.
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3.
**Errors in browser console (if relevant)**:
**Provide logs and/or server output (if relevant)**:
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### Author:  [@gil](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gil)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2019, 4:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/apm-server-logs-not-being-generated/195776/2 "2019-08-19T16:34:11Z")
Is apm-server [running under systemd](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/apm/server/current/running-with-systemd.html)? If so, the logs are in the systemd jourrnal viewable with `journalctl -u apm-server`.
Is this related to your [other discuss post](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/apm-server-connecting-to-elasticsearch-even-though-my-output-is-only-enabled-for-kafka/195614/4) or a separate issue?
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### Author:  [@Vishnu\_Singhal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Vishnu_Singhal)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2019, 6:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/apm-server-logs-not-being-generated/195776/3 "2019-08-19T18:49:26Z")
No.. I'm running with ./apm-server
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### Author:  [@Vishnu\_Singhal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Vishnu_Singhal)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2019, 12:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/apm-server-logs-not-being-generated/195776/4 "2019-08-23T12:29:21Z")
Can anyone share on this ?
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### Author:  [@simitt](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/simitt)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2019, 1:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/apm-server-logs-not-being-generated/195776/5 "2019-08-23T13:04:19Z")
Have you checked that apm-server has proper permissions to write to the configured path in `/var/log`?
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### Author:  [@Vishnu\_Singhal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Vishnu_Singhal)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2019, 1:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/apm-server-logs-not-being-generated/195776/6 "2019-08-23T13:05:52Z")
yes. i have checked it
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### Author:  [@simitt](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/simitt)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2019, 1:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/apm-server-logs-not-being-generated/195776/7 "2019-08-23T13:46:26Z")
Have you ensured to start apm-server with `./apm-server` without providing the `-e` flag?
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### Author:  [@Vishnu\_Singhal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Vishnu_Singhal)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2019, 2:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/apm-server-logs-not-being-generated/195776/8 "2019-08-23T14:18:05Z")
./apm-server -e -d "\*" -c apm-server.yml using this command.
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### Author:  [@Vishnu\_Singhal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Vishnu_Singhal)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2019, 2:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/apm-server-logs-not-being-generated/195776/9 "2019-08-23T14:37:34Z")
Thank it solved the problem. can it log to console also . Im trying on kubernetes.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2019, 10:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/apm-server-logs-not-being-generated/195776/10 "2019-09-13T10:37:40Z")
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