# Kibana logging configuration
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-logging-configuration/52381
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [June 9, 2016, 10:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-logging-configuration/52381 "2016-06-09T22:04:40Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@erempel](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/erempel)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2016, 10:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-logging-configuration/52381/1 "2016-06-09T22:04:40Z")
Is there any way to configure kibana to write its logs to syslog?
If there is, is there configuration settings to control the log line format?
Thanks for any help.
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### Author:  [@tylersmalley](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tylersmalley)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2016, 12:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-logging-configuration/52381/2 "2016-06-10T00:13:23Z")
Here are the server configuration options: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/kibana-server-properties.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/kibana-server-properties.html)
You can use `logging.dest` to specify the location for the output. It doesn't appear you are able to customize the format.
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### Author:  [@erempel](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/erempel)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2016, 6:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-logging-configuration/52381/3 "2016-06-10T18:52:58Z")
Thanks for that. The docs don't really state what the acceptable values are for that option. After some playing it is obvious that it is a file name. Even the example of stdout is not actually the standard out, it is a file of the name "kibana.stdout".
I have opened a feature request for this.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 1:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-logging-configuration/52381/4 "2017-07-06T13:50:48Z")