Hi everyone, I have just installed Elasticsearch 7.5.2 on Ubuntu 16.04 and I would like to configure Elasticsearch in order to retain only two log compressed files in /var/log/elasticsearch. I have modified log4j2.properties (/etc/elasticsearch) according to the documentation . ######## Server JSO…

Configure log4j2 in Elasticsearch (7x)

bodo.te (Bodo Teichmann) March 25, 2020, 9:39pm 2

If you use log4j2 , I would recommend my advise given in this thread: MDC logs, ELK and filebeat

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