# Filebeat/Metricbeat logs rotation
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-metricbeat-logs-rotation/144744
**Category:** Beats
**Created:** [August 16, 2018, 3:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-metricbeat-logs-rotation/144744 "2018-08-16T15:31:29Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@BiNaP](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/BiNaP)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2018, 3:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-metricbeat-logs-rotation/144744/1 "2018-08-16T15:31:29Z")
Hello everyone,
On my server, I've Filebeat and Metricbeat installed by RPM.
So I have folders in /etc for each product : /etc/metricbeat & /etc/filebeat.
My question is about the log rotation : I have searched in the process definition, in the yaml configuration file, in the logrotate.conf file, in logrotate.d
I'm still not able to find how my logs files are managed/purged/rotated.
In /var/log/metricbeat (or /var/log/filebeat), I have 7 files, the currently written log file, and 6 backlogs. Each of these 6 backlogs have a size of 10M.
Could you please tell me if there is settings where I can set how the logs must be managed ?
Best regards,
BiNaP.
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### Author:  [@kvch](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kvch)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2018, 7:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-metricbeat-logs-rotation/144744/2 "2018-08-17T07:50:58Z")
Logging options can be customized using the following config options (e.g Filebeat). See more about the below options here: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/configuration-logging.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/configuration-logging.html)
```auto
# Logging to rotating files. Set logging.to_files to false to disable logging to
# files.
logging.to_files: true
logging.files:
# Configure the path where the logs are written. The default is the logs directory
# under the home path (the binary location).
#path: /var/log/filebeat
# The name of the files where the logs are written to.
#name: filebeat
# Configure log file size limit. If limit is reached, log file will be
# automatically rotated
#rotateeverybytes: 10485760 # = 10MB
# Number of rotated log files to keep. Oldest files will be deleted first.
#keepfiles: 7
# The permissions mask to apply when rotating log files. The default value is 0600.
# Must be a valid Unix-style file permissions mask expressed in octal notation.
#permissions: 0600
# Set to true to log messages in json format.
#logging.json: false
```
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### Author:  [@BiNaP](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/BiNaP)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2018, 12:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-metricbeat-logs-rotation/144744/3 "2018-08-17T12:38:59Z")
Thank you @kvch. It is, indeed, set where you suggest for my Filebeat installation.
I'll apply the same for Metricbeat, I assume it can be done as well as for Filebeat.
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### Author:  [@kvch](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kvch)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2018, 1:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-metricbeat-logs-rotation/144744/4 "2018-08-17T13:27:23Z")
Yes, you can.
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### Author:  [@BiNaP](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/BiNaP)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2018, 1:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-metricbeat-logs-rotation/144744/5 "2018-08-17T13:53:17Z")
Thank you again, @kvch.
I think this topic can be closed.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2018, 3:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-metricbeat-logs-rotation/144744/6 "2018-09-14T15:53:19Z")
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