# Kibana Logs Filename **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Created:** [February 6, 2019, 9:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-logs-filename/167250 "2019-02-06T09:37:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jmukhtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a9a28c/32.png) [@jmukhtar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jmukhtar)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2019, 9:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-logs-filename/167250/1 "2019-02-06T09:37:52Z")
Hi I have got a kibana installation v6.5.3 and stragely the log file kibana-stdout are being generated with a lof dates in the file names ``` -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Feb 6 08:43 /var/log/kibana/kibana.stdout-20181126.gz-20181129-20181203-20181205-20181207-20181211-20181213-20181217-20181219-20181221-20181227-20181231-20190103-20190107-20190109-20190111-20190115-20190117-20190121-20190123-20190125-20190129-20190131-20190204 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11263 Feb 6 08:43 /var/log/kibana/kibana.stdout-20181128.gz-20181203-20181205-20181207-20181211-20181213-20181217-20181219-20181221-20181227-20181231-20190103-20190107-20190109-20190111-20190115-20190117-20190121-20190123-20190125-20190129-20190131-20190204-20190206 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Feb 6 08:43 /var/log/kibana/kibana.stdout-20181128.gz-20181203-20181205-20181207-20181211-20181213-20181217-20181219-20181221-20181227-20181231-20190103-20190107-20190109-20190111-20190115-20190117-20190121-20190123-20190125-20190129-20190131-20190204 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14197 Feb 6 08:43 /var/log/kibana/kibana.stdout-20181130.gz-20181205-20181207-20181211-20181213-20181217-20181219-20181221-20181227-20181231-20190103-20190107-20190109-20190111-20190115-20190117-20190121-20190123-20190125-20190129-20190131-20190204-20190206 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Feb 6 08:43 /var/log/kibana/kibana.stdout-20181130.gz-20181205-20181207-20181211-20181213-20181217-20181219-20181221-20181227-20181231-20190103-20190107-20190109-20190111-20190115-20190117-20190121-20190123-20190125-20190129-20190131-20190204 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2957 Feb 6 08:43 /var/log/kibana/kibana.stdout-20181204.gz-20181207-20181211-20181213-20181217-20181219-20181221-20181227-20181231-20190103-20190107-20190109-20190111-20190115-20190117-20190121-20190123-20190125-20190129-20190131-20190204-20190206 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Feb 6 08:43 /var/log/kibana/kibana.stdout-20181204.gz-20181207-20181211-20181213-20181217-20181219-20181221-20181227-20181231-20190103-20190107-20190109-20190111-20190115-20190117-20190121-20190123-20190125-20190129-20190131-20190204 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20 Feb 6 08:43 /var/log/kibana/kibana.stdout-20181206.gz-20181213-20181217-20181219-20181221-20181227-20181231-20190103-20190107-20190109-20190111-20190115-20190117-20190121-20190123-20190125-20190129-20190131-20190204-20190206 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Feb 6 08:43 /var/log/kibana/kibana.stdout-20181206.gz-20181213-20181217-20181219-20181221-20181227-20181231-20190103-20190107-20190109-20190111-20190115-20190117-20190121-20190123-20190125-20190129-20190131-20190204 -rw-r--r-- 1 kibana kibana 448598 Feb 6 09:26 /var/log/kibana/kibana.log ``` I haven't put in any spcific config for this; can someone please help me out in getting this fixed? ---
**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2019, 9:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-logs-filename/167250/2 "2019-02-06T09:41:09Z")
What OS? How did you install it? ---
**Author:** ![jmukhtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a9a28c/32.png) [@jmukhtar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jmukhtar)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2019, 9:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-logs-filename/167250/3 "2019-02-06T09:49:50Z")
AmazonLinux installed it via RPM; yum install kibana-6.5.3 I have seen this on multiple installations of kibana ---
**Author:** ![jmukhtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a9a28c/32.png) [@jmukhtar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jmukhtar)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2019, 9:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-logs-filename/167250/4 "2019-02-07T09:16:54Z")
Any update on this? ---
**Author:** ![jmukhtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a9a28c/32.png) [@jmukhtar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jmukhtar)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2019, 2:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-logs-filename/167250/5 "2019-02-11T14:29:24Z")
Did you get a chance to look into this further? ---
**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2019, 8:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-logs-filename/167250/6 "2019-02-11T20:22:02Z")
This is outside my area of knowledge sorry. Hopefully a Kibana dev will comment. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2019, 8:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-logs-filename/167250/7 "2019-03-11T20:22:03Z")
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