# syncthing: directing log output to a file or logging utility
**URL:** https://forum.syncthing.net/t/syncthing-directing-log-output-to-a-file-or-logging-utility/15616
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [September 14, 2020, 1:17pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/syncthing-directing-log-output-to-a-file-or-logging-utility/15616 "2020-09-14T13:17:10Z")
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### Author:  [@savil](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/savil)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2020, 1:17pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/syncthing-directing-log-output-to-a-file-or-logging-utility/15616/1 "2020-09-14T13:17:10Z")
Hello, thanks for building syncthing. I’ve been playing around with it recently for a project. A beginner question: upon starting it from the command line, syncthing prints a bunch of output to the CLI.
1. Is there a way to (temporarily) quiet this output?
2. More permanently, is there a syncthing API to direct this output to a log file, or later on to some logging utility run by a cloud provider to monitor my syncthing instances? How do folks usually accomplish this with syncthing?
Thank you in advance for your help!
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### Author:  [@calmh](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/calmh)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2020, 1:19pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/syncthing-directing-log-output-to-a-file-or-logging-utility/15616/2 "2020-09-14T13:19:41Z")
You can pipe the output to /dev/null, a file, or a logging utility. This often happens automatically, for example when run by systemd.
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### Author:  [@savil](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/savil)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2020, 1:22pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/syncthing-directing-log-output-to-a-file-or-logging-utility/15616/3 "2020-09-14T13:22:04Z")
Got it, thank you!
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2020, 1:22pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/syncthing-directing-log-output-to-a-file-or-logging-utility/15616/4 "2020-10-14T13:22:08Z")
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