Debug logs not working

Hello Elastic community,

I have an issue with elastic-agent debug logging, perhaps you could help me ?

Some events are dropped because the mapping changed o logs, but it's impossible for me to find where exactly, i have millions of logs sended hourly and rollover didn't do the trick.

Messages on elastic-agent logs are always the same :

Cannot index event (status=400): dropping event! Enable debug logs to view the event and cause.

So, i added this to elastic-agent.yml and restart :

agent.logging.level: debug
agent.logging.metrics.enabled: false
agent.logging.to_files: true
agent.logging.files:
  path: /var/log/elastic-agent
  name: elastic-agent
  keepfiles: 7
  permissions: 0600

fleet:
  enabled: true

The problem is that no debug logs are writted to dest, where info or warn logs are.
Whatever if i add agent.logging.selectors: ["beat", "publish", "service"], or send logs to syslog/stderr, or even launch elastic-agent with -e -c options, it never works.

Do you have any idea ?

My elastic-agent is running on Debian 12.5, version 8.14.1, executing a Custom Logs integration.

Thank you :slight_smile: !

Added fleet

Hi Manu,

Are you using a Fleet managed agent? If so, you can set the debug log level from the UI like this: Monitor Elastic Agents | Fleet and Elastic Agent Guide [8.14] | Elastic

Hello Julia, yes i'm using fleet and your solution did the trick !
Thank you so much ! :slight_smile:

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