# How to disable saving Kibana logs to /var/log/kibana

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-disable-saving-kibana-logs-to-var-log-kibana/296447>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [February 7, 2022, 9:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-disable-saving-kibana-logs-to-var-log-kibana/296447 "2022-02-07T09:39:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![vladislav](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/bbce88/32.png) [@vladislav](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vladislav)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2022, 9:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-disable-saving-kibana-logs-to-var-log-kibana/296447/1 "2022-02-07T09:39:54Z")

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Hello!

How to totally disable saving Kibana logs to /var/log/kibana/kibana.log ?  
I'm using elastic stack version 7.16 and already trying to set in kibana.yml:

`logging.dest: "u01/data/logs/kibana.log"`

and

```auto
logging:
  appenders:
    file:
      type: file
      fileName: u01/data/logs/kibana.log
      layout:
        type: pattern
  root:
    appenders: [default, file]

```

but it still saving logs in /var/log/kibana !

```auto
# systemctl status kibana
● kibana.service - Kibana
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/kibana.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: active (running) since Mon 2022-02-07 12:27:36 MSK; 10s ago
     Docs: https://www.elastic.co
 Main PID: 7902 (node)
    Tasks: 11 (limit: 49344)
   Memory: 525.9M
   CGroup: /system.slice/kibana.service
           └─7902 /usr/share/kibana/bin/../node/bin/node /usr/share/kibana/bin/../src/cli/dist --logging.dest=/var/log/kibana/kibana.log --pid.file=/run/kibana/kibana.pid

```

Why when I use "systemctl status kibana" it show --logging.dest=/var/log/kibana/kibana.log despite the fact that I specified other settings?

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**Author:** ![vladislav](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/bbce88/32.png) [@vladislav](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vladislav)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2022, 8:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-disable-saving-kibana-logs-to-var-log-kibana/296447/2 "2022-02-09T08:33:06Z")

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Found the solution  
Need to modify /etc/systemd/kibana.service

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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 9, 2022, 8:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-disable-saving-kibana-logs-to-var-log-kibana/296447/3 "2022-03-09T08:33:25Z")

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