# Logstash parsing messages consuming more space in /var/log

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-parsing-messages-consuming-more-space-in-var-log/170594>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [March 2, 2019, 4:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-parsing-messages-consuming-more-space-in-var-log/170594 "2019-03-02T16:32:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![Nithani25](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nithani25/32/33457_2.png) [@Nithani25](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Nithani25)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2019, 4:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-parsing-messages-consuming-more-space-in-var-log/170594/1 "2019-03-02T16:32:22Z")

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HI Team,  
I have a ELK stack setup on one single server for my my Non prodcution setup, i will upgrade it to 3 node cluster in future,but for the moment i am working on single node.  
Everything seems to working fine, except that my logstash is dumping its parsing messages in the /var/log folder "messages" file.

My /var/log/ is 4GB, I would like to change this path to another mount, is there simplest way to achieve without disturbing my setup!!

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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:** [March 2, 2019, 8:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-parsing-messages-consuming-more-space-in-var-log/170594/2 "2019-03-02T20:27:31Z")

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> Everything seems to working fine, except that my logstash is dumping its parsing messages in the /var/log folder "messages" file.

Logstash doesn't do that by default. Have you configured it with a stdout output plugin or chosen an unnecessarily verbose log level?

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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:** [March 30, 2019, 8:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-parsing-messages-consuming-more-space-in-var-log/170594/3 "2019-03-30T20:27:35Z")

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