# How to make ansible-playbook quiet

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-make-ansible-playbook-quiet/28622>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [September 21, 2018, 4:12am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-make-ansible-playbook-quiet/28622 "2018-09-21T04:12:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![Narahari\_n\_Savitha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Narahari\_n\_Savitha](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Narahari_n_Savitha)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2018, 4:12am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-make-ansible-playbook-quiet/28622/1 "2018-09-21T04:12:08Z")

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Thank you in advance for your time and attention.

In ansible-playbook command, how do I stop the \*\*\*\*\*\* lines from showing up ?

I really want very minimal output.

-N

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**Author:** ![Kai\_Stian\_Olstad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e19adc/32.png) [@Kai\_Stian\_Olstad](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Kai_Stian_Olstad)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2018, 5:41am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-make-ansible-playbook-quiet/28622/2 "2018-09-21T05:41:52Z")

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You can do that by changing stdout callback [1], it has many type you can choose [2].

[1] [https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.6/plugins/callback.html#managing-stdout](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.6/plugins/callback.html#managing-stdout)  
[2] [https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.6/plugins/callback.html#plugin-list](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.6/plugins/callback.html#plugin-list)

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**Author:** ![Narahari\_n\_Savitha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Narahari\_n\_Savitha](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Narahari_n_Savitha)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2018, 12:29pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-make-ansible-playbook-quiet/28622/3 "2018-09-21T12:29:14Z")

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Will look at your inputs. Thank you for the input.