# Watcher Logging Action **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Tags:** elastic-stack-alerting\ **Created:** [May 6, 2019, 6:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watcher-logging-action/179712 "2019-05-06T06:54:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![hyhong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3bc359/32.png) [@hyhong](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/hyhong)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2019, 6:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watcher-logging-action/179712/1 "2019-05-06T06:54:46Z")
The logging action category's default is xpack.watcher.actions.logging, I want record to a single file.What category should I set? ---
**Author:** ![spinscale](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/spinscale/32/25011_2.png) [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2019, 7:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watcher-logging-action/179712/2 "2019-05-06T07:53:49Z")
The category is only half the part that needs to be done, the other half is configuring the logging to create a separate file for that category, which needs to be done in the `config/log4j2.properties` file. --Alex ---
**Author:** ![hyhong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3bc359/32.png) [@hyhong](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/hyhong)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2019, 2:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watcher-logging-action/179712/3 "2019-05-07T02:25:15Z")
okļ¼Œthanks ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2019, 2:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watcher-logging-action/179712/4 "2019-06-04T02:35:00Z")
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