# Redirecting logs of kibana to /mnt/appln/kibana/logs

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/redirecting-logs-of-kibana-to-mnt-appln-kibana-logs/176018>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [April 9, 2019, 12:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/redirecting-logs-of-kibana-to-mnt-appln-kibana-logs/176018 "2019-04-09T12:06:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![swapnali](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5a626/32.png) [@swapnali](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/swapnali)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2019, 12:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/redirecting-logs-of-kibana-to-mnt-appln-kibana-logs/176018/1 "2019-04-09T12:06:36Z")

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Hello,

I am trying to redirect logs of kibana to /mnt/appln/kibana/logs  
I made a changes in logging.dest: /mnt/appln/kibana/logs in kibana.yml  
When i start kibna i got an error

Error: EISDIR: illegal operation on a directory, open '/mnt/appln/kibana/logs'

Please help me, How to redirect logs of kibana to /mnt/appln/kibana/logs this location.

Thanks

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**Author:** ![Aaron\_Caldwell](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/aaron_caldwell/32/45755_2.png) [@Aaron\_Caldwell](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Aaron_Caldwell)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2019, 3:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/redirecting-logs-of-kibana-to-mnt-appln-kibana-logs/176018/2 "2019-04-09T15:05:49Z")

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Hello,

It sounds like the user you're running Kibana as doesn't have write permissions for the directory. See this related issue:

> [@My kibana failed to start](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/my-kibana-failed-to-start/123548):
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> elasticsearch is going well and my head plugins also working well,But i can't enter the web of kibana ,start it give me the error msg: [root@localhost bin]# events.js:160 throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event ^ Error: EISDIR: illegal operation on a directory, open '/usr/local/bin/kibana-6.1.2-linux-x86\_64/logs/' at Error (native)

Regards,  
Aaron

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**Author:** ![swapnali](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5a626/32.png) [@swapnali](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/swapnali)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2019, 4:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/redirecting-logs-of-kibana-to-mnt-appln-kibana-logs/176018/4 "2019-04-09T16:53:29Z")

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Hello,  
Thanks for your reply  
But I have given 775 permission to entire path  
/Mnt/appln/kibana/logs

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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:** [May 7, 2019, 5:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/redirecting-logs-of-kibana-to-mnt-appln-kibana-logs/176018/5 "2019-05-07T17:01:01Z")

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