# Logstash Writing to Two Log Files

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-writing-to-two-log-files/299628>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [March 14, 2022, 1:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-writing-to-two-log-files/299628 "2022-03-14T13:52:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![dawiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/71e660/32.png) [@dawiro](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dawiro)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2022, 1:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-writing-to-two-log-files/299628/1 "2022-03-14T13:52:13Z")

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Hi,  
Our logstash 7.16.2 instances are writing log files to `/var/log/logstash/logstash-plain.log` and `/var/log/logstash-stdout.log`.

How do we prevent the creation of the second log under `/var/log`? Log config looks like this:

```auto
path.logs: /var/log/logstash

```

Thx  
D

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**Author:** ![leandrojmp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/leandrojmp/32/107231_2.png) [@leandrojmp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/leandrojmp)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2022, 2:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-writing-to-two-log-files/299628/2 "2022-03-14T14:01:06Z")

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How are you running logstash?

Normally logstash only writes to `/var/log/logstash/logstash-plain.log`.

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**Author:** ![dawiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/71e660/32.png) [@dawiro](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dawiro)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2022, 3:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-writing-to-two-log-files/299628/3 "2022-03-14T15:14:14Z")

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Running it normally on an EC2 instance.

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**Author:** ![leandrojmp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/leandrojmp/32/107231_2.png) [@leandrojmp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/leandrojmp)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2022, 3:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-writing-to-two-log-files/299628/4 "2022-03-14T15:32:48Z")

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> [@dawiro](#):
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> Running it normally on an EC2 instance.

But how? As a service? Using a script? Using crontab?

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**Author:** ![dawiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/71e660/32.png) [@dawiro](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dawiro)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2022, 8:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-writing-to-two-log-files/299628/5 "2022-03-15T08:19:32Z")

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As a service.

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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:** [April 12, 2022, 8:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-writing-to-two-log-files/299628/6 "2022-04-12T08:19:37Z")

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