---
title: Logs settings in Kibana
description: 
url: https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3175/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">
    <supported-on>Self-managed Elastic deployments: Generally available</supported-on>

Fields used to display messages in the Logs app.
Datatype: `string`
Default: ``['message', '@message']``
  </definition>
  <definition term="xpack.infra.alerting.inventory_threshold.group_by_page_size">
    <supported-on>Self-managed Elastic deployments: Generally available</supported-on>

Controls the size of the composite aggregations used by the Inventory Threshold to retrieve all the hosts.
Datatype: `int`
Default: `10000`
  </definition>
  <definition term="xpack.infra.alerting.metric_threshold.group_by_page_size">
    <supported-on>Self-managed Elastic deployments: Generally available</supported-on>

Controls the size of the composite aggregations used by the Metric Threshold group by feature.
Datatype: `int`
Default: `10000`
  </definition>
</definitions>