# Kibana 7.11.0 kibana.pid en kibana.json not created in configured locations

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-7-11-0-kibana-pid-en-kibana-json-not-created-in-configured-locations/264694>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [February 18, 2021, 11:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-7-11-0-kibana-pid-en-kibana-json-not-created-in-configured-locations/264694 "2021-02-18T11:06:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![willemdh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/willemdh/32/16922_2.png) [@willemdh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/willemdh)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2021, 11:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-7-11-0-kibana-pid-en-kibana-json-not-created-in-configured-locations/264694/1 "2021-02-18T11:06:16Z")

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Hello,

On our DV Elastic, we tested 7.11 and noticed the Kibana logs were no longer generated in the expected location. After some debuging, it seems the logs are written to the default path `/var/log/kibana/kibana.log` instead of to the configured `logging.dest` `/logdisk/kibana/kibana.json`. We also noticed that there no kibana.pid file in the configured location `/etc/kibana/pid/kibana.pid`.

Relevant `kibana.yml` configuration:

```
logging.dest: /logdisk/kibana/kibana.json
logging.json: true
logging.timezone: Europe/Brussels
pid.file: /etc/kibana/pid/kibana.pid

```

We did find a `kibana.pid` file in the following location: `/var/run/kibana/kibana.pid`.

What's going on here?

Grtz

Willem

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**Author:** ![lukas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/lukas/32/6812_2.png) [@lukas](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lukas)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2021, 5:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-7-11-0-kibana-pid-en-kibana-json-not-created-in-configured-locations/264694/2 "2021-02-18T17:19:55Z")

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Hmm, this seems like it could be a bug. Do you mind opening an issue in our [GitHub repo](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/new?assignees=&labels=bug&template=Bug_report.md)?

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**Author:** ![willemdh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/willemdh/32/16922_2.png) [@willemdh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/willemdh)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2021, 5:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-7-11-0-kibana-pid-en-kibana-json-not-created-in-configured-locations/264694/3 "2021-02-18T17:23:47Z")

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> <https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/91885>
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> Kibana version: 7.11.0
> Elasticsearch version: 7.11.0
> Server OS version: CentOS 7
> On our DV Elastic, we tested 7.11 and noticed the Kibana logs were...

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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 18, 2021, 5:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-7-11-0-kibana-pid-en-kibana-json-not-created-in-configured-locations/264694/4 "2021-03-18T17:23:57Z")

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