# How to completely disable logstash logging? **URL:** \ **Category:** Logstash\ **Created:** [June 12, 2018, 2:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-completely-disable-logstash-logging/135553 "2018-06-12T14:12:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Rahulkumar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8dc957/32.png) [@Rahulkumar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Rahulkumar)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2018, 2:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-completely-disable-logstash-logging/135553/1 "2018-06-12T14:12:46Z")
Hi, I am using Linux system. I do not want logstash to write any log either under location "/usr/share/logstash/logs" or under "/var/log/logstash". I want to completely disable all type of logging for logstash. Please let me know what should I do? ---
**Author:** ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2018, 2:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-completely-disable-logstash-logging/135553/2 "2018-06-12T14:47:15Z")
I'm not sure that's possible. Why do you want to do that? ---
**Author:** ![Rahulkumar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8dc957/32.png) [@Rahulkumar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Rahulkumar)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2018, 5:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-completely-disable-logstash-logging/135553/3 "2018-06-12T17:26:32Z")
@magnusbaeck, It is consuming huge disk space, hence do not want to store any logs. ---
**Author:** ![Badger](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/badger/32/25190_2.png) [@Badger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Badger)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2018, 5:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-completely-disable-logstash-logging/135553/4 "2018-06-12T17:47:45Z")
Modifying your logstash.yml to have log.level: warn or log.level:error might help. But it might also be worth reading those logs and understanding why it is logging so much. For example, in one of my instances, I had hundreds of megabytes of errors from xml filters that were failing because the xml was getting truncated upstream. Adding a simple check to see if the xml text ended in \> before applying the xml filter cut the logs by 95%. ---
**Author:** ![Rahulkumar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8dc957/32.png) [@Rahulkumar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Rahulkumar)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2018, 6:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-completely-disable-logstash-logging/135553/5 "2018-06-12T18:02:38Z")
@Badger, True. Even for me, i had written ruby filters for 4.x version and the same code i am using for 6.2 version. that might be the problem. I am checking the same but meanwhile i wanted to stop the logs. I changed it to fatal level. Now, for time being, nothing is being written. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![CDR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d9b06d/32.png) [@CDR](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/CDR)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2018, 7:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-completely-disable-logstash-logging/135553/6 "2018-06-12T19:57:22Z")
Would it be possible to change the path to which logstash logs to to /dev/null? ---
**Author:** ![Badger](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/badger/32/25190_2.png) [@Badger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Badger)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2018, 8:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-completely-disable-logstash-logging/135553/7 "2018-06-12T20:05:21Z")
If you set path.logs to /dev/null then you get an exception ``` 2018-06-12 16:03:48,264 main ERROR Unable to create file /dev/null/logstash-plain.log java.io.IOException: File /dev/null exists and is not a directory. Unable to create directory. ``` I expect you could update log4j.properties to avoid this. ---
**Author:** ![Rahulkumar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8dc957/32.png) [@Rahulkumar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Rahulkumar)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2018, 6:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-completely-disable-logstash-logging/135553/8 "2018-06-13T06:12:48Z")
Thank you very much! let me check log4j.properties. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2018, 6:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-completely-disable-logstash-logging/135553/9 "2018-07-11T06:13:00Z")
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