# How to filebeat logs in all levels?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-filebeat-logs-in-all-levels/45656
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** filebeat
**Created:** [March 29, 2016, 7:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-filebeat-logs-in-all-levels/45656 "2016-03-29T07:55:01Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@muhamadli302](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/muhamadli302)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2016, 7:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-filebeat-logs-in-all-levels/45656/1 "2016-03-29T07:55:01Z")
hello,
I'm trying to have filebeat create logs in all the levels (info, error, debug etc) in order to debug it's work, but I don't understand how to edit the .yml config file correctly in order to make this happen.
Can someone help me?
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### Author:  [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2016, 8:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-filebeat-logs-in-all-levels/45656/2 "2016-03-29T08:12:56Z")
Just change "warning" in the [example in the documentation](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/configuration-logging.html) to "debug" and you should get what you want.
If that doesn't help, please show your current configuration. Format it as code with the `` toolbar button so that indentation won't be lost.
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### Author:  [@andrewkroh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/andrewkroh)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2016, 4:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-filebeat-logs-in-all-levels/45656/3 "2016-03-29T16:51:42Z")
I think you will also need to enable one or more [`selectors`](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/configuration-logging.html#_selectors).
```auto
logging:
level: debug
selectors: [*]
```
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### Author:  [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2016, 4:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-filebeat-logs-in-all-levels/45656/4 "2016-03-29T16:58:54Z")
The documentation says
> If debug is used, but no selectors are configured, the \* selector will be used.
and the OP was interested in debug messages so I assumed no selector would be necessary.
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### Author:  [@andrewkroh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/andrewkroh)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2016, 5:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-filebeat-logs-in-all-levels/45656/5 "2016-03-29T17:35:23Z")
Good point. I should read the docs more closely. 😌
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### Author:  [@muhamadli302](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/muhamadli302)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2016, 9:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-filebeat-logs-in-all-levels/45656/6 "2016-03-30T09:23:54Z")
Thanks to all of you, I did miss the selectors part...
now I found my problem, filebeat can't connect to elasticsearch.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2017, 9:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-filebeat-logs-in-all-levels/45656/7 "2017-07-05T21:54:04Z")