Logs of an Elasticsearch

Elastic Orchestration Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK)
#1

Hi,

I have deployed Elasticsearch 7.10.0 in kubernetes using Operator.
I have path.logs: /usr/share/elasticsearch/logs , here I am getting only gc.log
Apart from this I am not getting any elasticsearch logs. So here my main point is where do I get application/server logs of an elasticsearch. For this do I have to add some configurations or what??
Help would really appreciated.
Thank you.

#2

Can anyone help me on this?

#3

Hi,

Elasticsearch logs are sent to the standard output. You can use kubectl logs <pod> to get them.

We recently published a blog post to show how to collect those logs with the help of Filebeat and send them to a monitoring cluster.

Hope it helps.

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#4

Hi @michael.morello
Does it require any licence to enable the things that you have mentioned in the blog post
beacause I have observed some xpack parameters we have to enable.

#5

Is it possible to send Elasticsearch logs which are sent to standard output, to a file inside pod.

#6

It will become possible to write logs files in the container after a change for https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/62758 is merged and released.