
Elasticsearch 8.x Cookbook
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Standard logging settings work very well for general usage.
Changing the log level can be useful for checking for bugs or understanding malfunctions due to bad configuration or strange plugin behavior. A verbose log can be used from the Elasticsearch community to solve such problems.
If you need to debug your Elasticsearch server or change the logging, you need to change the log4j2.properties
file.
You need a working Elasticsearch installation, as described in the Downloading and installing Elasticsearch recipe, and a simple text editor to change configuration files.
In the config
directory in your Elasticsearch install directory, there is a log4j2.properties
file that controls the working settings.
The steps that are required for changing the logging settings are as follows: