Changing logging settings
Standard logging settings work very well for general usage.
Changing the log level can be useful to check for bugs or understanding malfunctions due to bad configuration or strange plugin behaviors. A verbose log can be used from Elasticsearch community to cover problems.
If you need to debug your Elasticsearch server or change how the logging works (that is, remoting send events), you need to change the log4j2.properties parameters.
Getting ready
You need a working Elasticsearch installation as we described in the Downloading and installing Elasticsearch recipe and a simple text editor to change configuration files.
How to do it...
In the config directory in your Elasticsearch install directory, there is a log4j2.properties file, which controls the working settings.
The steps required for changing the logging settings are:
To emit every kind of logging Elasticsearch has, you can change the current root level logging which is:
rootLogger.level = info
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