---
title: Enabling the Logger
description: Elasticsearch-PHP supports logging, but it is not enabled by default for performance reasons. If you wish to enable logging, you need to select a logging...
url: https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3028/reference/elasticsearch/clients/php/enabling_logger
products:
  - Elasticsearch
  - Elasticsearch Client
  - Elasticsearch PHP Client
---

# Enabling the Logger
Elasticsearch-PHP supports logging, but it is not enabled by default for performance reasons. If you wish to enable logging, you need to select a logging implementation, install it, then enable the logger in the Client. The recommended logger is [Monolog](https://github.com/Seldaek/monolog), but any logger that implements the [PSR-3](https://www.php-fig.org/psr/psr-3/) interface works.
To begin using Monolog, just require it using composer:
```shell
composer require monolog/monolog
```

Once Monolog (or another logger) is installed, you need to create a log object and inject it into the client:
```php
use Monolog\Logger;
use Monolog\Handler\StreamHandler;

$logger = new Logger('name');
$logger->pushHandler(new StreamHandler('path/to/your.log', Logger::WARNING));

$client = ClientBuilder::create()
    ->setLogger($logger)       
    ->build();                 
```