Changing logging settings
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.
Getting ready
You need a working Elasticsearch installation, as 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 that controls the working settings.
The steps that are required for changing the logging settings are as follows:
- To emit every kind of logging that Elasticsearch could produce, you can change the current root level logging...
