Elasticsearch can't write to log files

Question

I would like to activate logs of elasticsearch .

When I run elasticsearch binaries, I realize that I have problems with logging : the configuration cannot be loaded !

Answer 1

If you have installed elasticsearch in Debian systems using dpkg, the default configuration can be found at /etc/elasticsearch/

You will have 2 yml files:

• elasticsearch.yml
• logging.yml

You can edit the elasticsearch file (changing access right or copying file into your main elasticsearch directory). To configure your log path (l.167).

    #path.logs: /path/to/logs
    #e.g:        
    path.logs: /usr/share/elasticsearch/logs

Make sure you have right access on it. Then try

    cd /usr/share/elasticsearch/ 
    bin/elasticsearch start

and check the publish_adress given in terminal

You can also define more parameters. Hope this help.