# Enabling compression on elasticsearch.log
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/enabling-compression-on-elasticsearch-log/157
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [May 4, 2015, 9:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/enabling-compression-on-elasticsearch-log/157 "2015-05-04T21:45:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@mrg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mrg)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2015, 9:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/enabling-compression-on-elasticsearch-log/157/1 "2015-05-04T21:45:22Z")
i'm wondering how / if there is support for automatic compression of elasticsearch.log via `logging.yml`.
it looks like there might be via [issue #7927](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/7927) and this [PR#8464](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/8464) ...but maybe limited to v1.5?
ideally, i'd like to see a logging.yml syntax example and clarification of what version(s) it works in
thanks in advance!
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### Author:  [@colings86](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/colings86)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2015, 7:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/enabling-compression-on-elasticsearch-log/157/2 "2015-05-05T07:17:59Z")
Yes you are right that the additional of log4j-extras (which allows for compression of log files was added in version 1.5. For an example of enabling the RollingFileAppender (which compresses the log files) see [https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/blob/master/config/logging.yml#L43-52](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/blob/master/config/logging.yml#L43-52).
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 12:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/enabling-compression-on-elasticsearch-log/157/3 "2017-07-06T00:15:44Z")