[role="xpack"]
[[actions-logging]]
=== {watcher} logging Action
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<titleabbrev>Logging action</titleabbrev>
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Use the `logging` action to log text to the standard Elasticsearch
logs. See <<logging-action-attributes>> for the supported attributes.

This action is primarily used during development and for debugging purposes.

[[configuring-logging-actions]]
==== Configuring logging actions

You configure logging actions in the `actions` array. Action-specific attributes
are specified using the `logging` keyword.

The following snippet shows a simple logging action definition:

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
"actions" : {
  "log" : { <1>
    "transform" : { ... }, <2>
    "logging" : {
      "text" : "executed at {{ctx.execution_time}}" <3>
    }
  }
}
--------------------------------------------------
// NOTCONSOLE
<1> The id of the action.
<2> An optional <<transform, transform>> to transform the payload before
    executing the `logging` action.
<3> The text to be logged.


[[logging-action-attributes]]
==== Logging action attributes

[options="header"]
|======
| Name        |Required | Default                       | Description

| `text`      | yes     | -                             | The text that should be logged. Can be static text or
                                                          include Mustache <<templates, templates>>.

| `category`  | no      | xpack.watcher.actions.logging | The category under which the text will be logged.

| `level`     | no      | info                          | The logging level. Valid values are: `error`, `warn`,
                                                          `info`, `debug` and `trace`.
|======
