# Logstash LOG\_OPTION

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-log-option/58178>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [August 16, 2016, 7:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-log-option/58178 "2016-08-16T19:12:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![sundar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@sundar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sundar)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 7:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-log-option/58178/1 "2016-08-16T19:12:02Z")

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Hello Logstash experts,

We are using Logstash 2.3 .1 and find in the documentation that there are only two levels of log (from logstash itself): --verbose and --debug.

Is there any other level we can set which is undocumented perhaps? I find both verbosity quite high and would like something equivalent of "WARN", "INFO", "DEBUG", "TRACE" like Elasticsearch, and I would run my production system at "WARN".

Thanks  
-Sundar

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**Author:** ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 7:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-log-option/58178/2 "2016-08-16T19:25:21Z")

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The default level should correspond to WARN, `--verbose` is INFO, and `--debug` is DEBUG.

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**Author:** ![sundar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@sundar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sundar)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2016, 12:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-log-option/58178/3 "2016-08-19T00:48:59Z")

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Sorry for the late ack, thanks that helped.

Please update the documentation if you can for a future release that default is equivalent to WARN in Elasticsearch. The wording is a bit confusing right now (--verbose means less-verbose...)

-Sundar

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**Author:** ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2016, 6:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-log-option/58178/4 "2016-08-19T06:18:09Z")

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The documentation has already been improved for Logstash 5.0 (see [https://github.com/elastic/logstash/blob/master/docs/static/command-line-flags.asciidoc](https://github.com/elastic/logstash/blob/master/docs/static/command-line-flags.asciidoc)) but the default level isn't specified. I filed [https://github.com/elastic/logstash/issues/5783](https://github.com/elastic/logstash/issues/5783) for documenting it. I also just saw [https://github.com/elastic/logstash/issues/5735](https://github.com/elastic/logstash/issues/5735) which is for changing the default level to INFO for 5.0.

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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 6, 2017, 4:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-log-option/58178/5 "2017-07-06T04:42:38Z")

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