Adjusting Logging Levels in Elasticsearch

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Adjusting Logging Levels in Elasticsearch

Summary:  This article outlines how to adjust logging levels in Elasticsearch

Elasticsearch logging levels can be adjusted by changing the corresponding logger.{name}.level to the desired level.  Each logger accepts Log4j 2’s built-in log levels, from least to most verbose: OFF, FATAL, ERROR, WARN, INFO, DEBUG, and TRACE.

1. Navigate to the server which host the elasticsearch service
2. Open services.msc and stop the elasticsearch service
3. Navigate to the elasticsearch config folder (generally located at C:\Program Files\SailPoint\elasticsearch-5.1.1\config)
4. Open the Log4j properties file 
   1. Recommend opening in Notepad++ for easier viewing
5. Locate the logger level you would like to adjust and enter the new desired logging level
6. Save the file
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7. Start the elasticsearch service 

The following levels correspond to the following log files

• logger.action.level -> elasticsearch-service-x64-stdout, FileAccessManager
• logger.deprecation.level -> FileAccessManager_deprecation