# Enable debug logging on metricbeat using a docker CMD
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/enable-debug-logging-on-metricbeat-using-a-docker-cmd/308006
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** docker, metricbeat
**Created:** [June 23, 2022, 12:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/enable-debug-logging-on-metricbeat-using-a-docker-cmd/308006 "2022-06-23T12:28:02Z")
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### Author:  [@ndtreviv](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ndtreviv)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2022, 12:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/enable-debug-logging-on-metricbeat-using-a-docker-cmd/308006/1 "2022-06-23T12:28:02Z")
If I'm running metricbeat in docker, how can I enable debug logging?
So far I've tried
1. `./metricbeat setup -E logging.level="debug" && ./metricbeat`
2. `./metricbeat -d "*"`
but I can't get it to work.
I'm expecting the logs to appear in stdout when running in docker (so they're visible using `docker logs` command). Is that incorrect?
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### Author:  [@ndtreviv](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ndtreviv)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2022, 1:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/enable-debug-logging-on-metricbeat-using-a-docker-cmd/308006/2 "2022-06-23T13:07:40Z")
Turns out you need the -e flag to write to stdout.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2022, 3:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/enable-debug-logging-on-metricbeat-using-a-docker-cmd/308006/3 "2022-07-21T15:07:53Z")
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