# Filebeat logs

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-logs/41904>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [February 16, 2016, 4:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-logs/41904 "2016-02-16T16:11:17Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
**Page:** 1

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**Author:** ![veve90](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/veve90/32/6517_2.png) [@veve90](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/veve90)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2016, 4:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-logs/41904/1 "2016-02-16T16:11:17Z")

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Hello,

In my filebeat configuration I have:

```
logging:

  to_syslog: true
  files:
    path: /var/log/filebeat
    name: myfilebeat
    rotateeverybytes: 10485760 # = 10MB
    keepfiles: 7
  level: info

```

However, I have no logs in /var/log/filebeat...  
I created the filebeat folder , I tried to give temporary all the rights (777) in order to see that is not a rights problem, but it didn't worked...

How can I make filebeat write logs?

Note: I'm using filebeat on CentOS 6

Thank you!

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**Author:** ![ruflin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ruflin/32/3116_2.png) [@ruflin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ruflin)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2016, 5:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-logs/41904/2 "2016-02-16T17:18:39Z")

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Can you enable `to_files`? [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/configuration-logging.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/configuration-logging.html)

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**Author:** ![veve90](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/veve90/32/6517_2.png) [@veve90](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/veve90)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2016, 12:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-logs/41904/3 "2016-02-18T12:52:05Z")

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Thank you!

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 9:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-logs/41904/4 "2017-07-05T21:55:36Z")

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