﻿---
title: Logs settings in Kibana
description: You do not need to configure any settings to use the Logs app in Kibana. It is enabled by default. The Kibana logs can be found per operating system under:...
url: https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3002/reference/kibana/configuration-reference/logs-settings
products:
  - Kibana
applies_to:
  - Self-managed Elastic deployments: Generally available
---

# Logs settings in Kibana
You do not need to configure any settings to use the Logs app in Kibana. It is enabled by default.
The Kibana logs can be found per operating system under:
- Linux, DEB or RPM package: /var/log/kibana/kibana.log
- Linux, tar.gz package: $KIBANA_HOME/log/kibana.log
- Windows: $KIBANA_HOME\log\kibana.log


## General Logs settings

<definitions>
  <definition term="xpack.infra.sources.default.fields.message">
    Fields used to display messages in the Logs app. Defaults to `['message', '@message']`.
  </definition>
  <definition term="xpack.infra.alerting.inventory_threshold.group_by_page_size">
    Controls the size of the composite aggregations used by the Inventory Threshold to retrieve all the hosts. Defaults to `10_000`.
  </definition>
  <definition term="xpack.infra.alerting.metric_threshold.group_by_page_size">
    Controls the size of the composite aggregations used by the Metric Threshold group by feature. Defaults to `10_000`.
  </definition>
</definitions>