# Where does logstash put its own logging information?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/where-does-logstash-put-its-own-logging-information/96155>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [August 7, 2017, 9:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/where-does-logstash-put-its-own-logging-information/96155 "2017-08-07T21:04:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![jayunit100](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9bcb4/32.png) [@jayunit100](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jayunit100)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2017, 9:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/where-does-logstash-put-its-own-logging-information/96155/1 "2017-08-07T21:04:41Z")

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I'm running logstash, and from standard out, I see no logging info after the server finally starts:

21:02:11.228 [[main]-pipeline-manager] INFO logstash.inputs.beats - Beats inputs: Starting input listener {:address=\>"0.0.0.0:5044"}  
21:02:13.088 [[main]-pipeline-manager] INFO logstash.inputs.log4j - Starting Log4j input listener {:address=\>"0.0.0.0:4560"}  
21:02:13.168 [[main]-pipeline-manager] INFO logstash.inputs.log4j - Log4j input  
21:02:13.329 [[main]-pipeline-manager] INFO logstash.pipeline - Pipeline main started  
21:02:14.100 [Api Webserver] INFO logstash.agent - Successfully started Logstash API endpoint {:port=\>9600}

How can I see a status update for logstash ? From what I can tell, the output sinks stop doing anything useful after about 60 seconds, and I don't see any new logs rolling in.

1. This may or may not be my applications, the only way I can reliably tell is if I can read a heartbeat log of how many inputs/sec. logstash is receieving.

2. I'd also love to see logs for the output info , i.e. how many outputs per second logstash is shipping.

I assume this is stored somewhere in a file, without me having to use any special verbose logging information, but im happy to use standard out if thats the only place to find this information.

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2017, 2:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/where-does-logstash-put-its-own-logging-information/96155/2 "2017-08-08T02:55:21Z")

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Once started it will only log things it needs to, or if you use a stdout output.

In regards to your points, see [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/monitoring-logstash.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/monitoring-logstash.html)

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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:** [September 5, 2017, 2:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/where-does-logstash-put-its-own-logging-information/96155/3 "2017-09-05T02:57:18Z")

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