# How do I turn on access logs for Elasticsearch REST API?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-i-turn-on-access-logs-for-elasticsearch-rest-api/75938>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [February 21, 2017, 6:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-i-turn-on-access-logs-for-elasticsearch-rest-api/75938 "2017-02-21T18:01:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![lin-zhao](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/lin-zhao/32/11147_2.png) [@lin-zhao](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lin-zhao)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2017, 6:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-i-turn-on-access-logs-for-elasticsearch-rest-api/75938/1 "2017-02-21T18:01:16Z")

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I would like to log HTTP queries to elasticsearch API and their responses, similar to access logs to Apache. Is there a way to do so?

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2017, 11:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-i-turn-on-access-logs-for-elasticsearch-rest-api/75938/2 "2017-02-21T23:22:52Z")

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There is currently no way to do this.

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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:** [March 21, 2017, 11:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-i-turn-on-access-logs-for-elasticsearch-rest-api/75938/3 "2017-03-21T23:23:21Z")

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