# How to control the size of kibana.log by setting kibana.yml

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-control-the-size-of-kibana-log-by-setting-kibana-yml/134168>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [June 1, 2018, 8:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-control-the-size-of-kibana-log-by-setting-kibana-yml/134168 "2018-06-01T08:24:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![star90](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@star90](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/star90)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2018, 8:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-control-the-size-of-kibana-log-by-setting-kibana-yml/134168/1 "2018-06-01T08:24:32Z")

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i found there are four settings about kibana's log in kibana.yml. they are dest,slient,quiet and verbose.  
but i cannot control the size of kibana,how can i do this by setting kibana.yml

thks for your reply!

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**Author:** ![Bill\_McConaghy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed655f/32.png) [@Bill\_McConaghy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Bill_McConaghy)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2018, 4:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-control-the-size-of-kibana-log-by-setting-kibana-yml/134168/2 "2018-06-01T16:22:03Z")

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Unfortunately Kibana does not currently support specifying a max size for its log.

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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 29, 2018, 4:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-control-the-size-of-kibana-log-by-setting-kibana-yml/134168/3 "2018-06-29T16:22:08Z")

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