How to set log in kibana?

Elastic Stack Kibana
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I installed kibana by default in windows 2008 r2 a few months ago.

However, I did not see log folder under the kibana installation folder.

I found that I could set config file as below in kibana.yml.

logging.dest: stdout

Atfer I set the kibana.yml and restarted the kibana service, I still did not find log folder under the kibana folder.

Is there something wrong with me?

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logging.dest: stdout will not create a log file. You can try a value that is a path, such as logging.dest: /var/log/kibana.log.

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Thanks.

Could you tell me how to set kibana.yml to generate log files by daily?

For example:
d:/kibana/log/kibana.log.20190112.log
d:/kibana/log/kibana.log.20190113.log
d:/kibana/log/kibana.log.20190114.log

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That isn't possible via kibana.yml. You could create a bash script that copies the Kibana log file every day at midnight, add the date to the new file name, and clear the original Kibana log file.

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While this isn't native to the Elastic stack it is possible with a log rotate script. On Linux you would use logrotate as described here:

In your case on Windows I found this powershell script option on TechNet: Browse code samples | Microsoft Learn

The powershell script doesn't meet exactly the needs you spelled out but could be modified to meet what you're looking for.

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