# Kibana audit logging

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-audit-logging/236941>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [June 12, 2020, 7:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-audit-logging/236941 "2020-06-12T19:50:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![mtudisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3d9bf3/32.png) [@mtudisco](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mtudisco)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2020, 7:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-audit-logging/236941/1 "2020-06-12T19:50:38Z")

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Hi,  
I'm about to enable audit logging in kibana, but found documentation lacks information, i refer to:  
[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/xpack-security-audit-logging.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/xpack-security-audit-logging.html)

It says that the events you can audit are:  
saved\_objects\_authorization\_success  
saved\_objects\_authorization\_failure

But it does not say how to configure to audit one or both of the events. So question 1 is how do you specify what to audit?

Then it says "Audit logging uses the standard Kibana logging output" so i guess i might get information in logging.dest of the kibana.yml . Second question is that correct? do i get a different file for auditing logging than from normal logging?

thanks

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**Author:** ![mattkime](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mattkime/32/43522_2.png) [@mattkime](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mattkime)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2020, 6:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-audit-logging/236941/2 "2020-06-16T18:27:35Z")

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Kibana defers to Elasticsearch for a number of these questions - [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.7/auditing-settings.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.7/auditing-settings.html)

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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:** [July 14, 2020, 6:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-audit-logging/236941/3 "2020-07-14T18:27:38Z")

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