# How to change log directory for Kibana?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-change-log-directory-for-kibana/231762>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [May 8, 2020, 3:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-change-log-directory-for-kibana/231762 "2020-05-08T15:41:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ankit\_Sus](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ankit_sus/32/67973_2.png) [@Ankit\_Sus](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ankit_Sus)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2020, 3:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-change-log-directory-for-kibana/231762/1 "2020-05-08T15:41:23Z")

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I have used logging.dest in my kibana.yml but I don't see logs being generated in this location. I have also created a file "kibana.log" expecting it would write to it but no luck. The file has all the permissions.

logging.dest: /opt/logs/kibana.log

This is the file permissions  
-rwxrwxr-x. 1 root root 0 May 8 15:35 kibana.log

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**Author:** ![mkandala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@mkandala](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mkandala)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2020, 6:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-change-log-directory-for-kibana/231762/2 "2020-05-09T18:36:20Z")

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It works for us, when I changed

# Enables you specify a file where Kibana stores log output.

logging.dest: /elk/kibana/logs/kibana-7-6-log

and restarted the KIbana

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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:** [June 6, 2020, 6:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-change-log-directory-for-kibana/231762/3 "2020-06-06T18:36:29Z")

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