# ansible-playbook redirect

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-playbook-redirect/27814>\
**Category:** Ansible Developer\
**Created:** [June 18, 2018, 2:21pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-playbook-redirect/27814 "2018-06-18T14:21:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![apple.talk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/cdc98d/32.png) [@apple.talk](https://forum.ansible.com/u/apple.talk)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2018, 2:21pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-playbook-redirect/27814/1 "2018-06-18T14:21:28Z")

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Hi folks,

when I use “ansible-playbook -i ” I could’t redirect the output. Why?

ansible-playbook -i \> log.txt

I will capture the consolen output and send this output to another app. I can capture the STDOUT traffic from other App (“LS” and so on)  
but not from Ansible. Is there configution option for ansible?

Klemens

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/original/1X/1882d9a01da5d8996a862359b0913cc568a39b84.svg) [@system](https://forum.ansible.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2018, 2:34pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-playbook-redirect/27814/2 "2018-06-18T14:34:36Z")

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No, that should capture stdout, but ansible also prints to stderr.

In any case Ansible has 'callback plugins' which are meant to export  
that data to 3rd parties.

[https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/plugins/callback.html](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/plugins/callback.html)