# How to store ansible running log to separate log file without touch ANSIBLE\_LOG\_PATH or ansible.cfg **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Developer\ **Created:** [February 27, 2019, 7:23am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-store-ansible-running-log-to-separate-log-file-without-touch-ansible-log-path-or-ansible-cfg/29785 "2019-02-27T07:23:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Qin\_Peter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/a88e57/32.png) [@Qin\_Peter](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Qin_Peter)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2019, 7:23am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-store-ansible-running-log-to-separate-log-file-without-touch-ansible-log-path-or-ansible-cfg/29785/1 "2019-02-27T07:23:21Z")
Hi All, This is Peter and I am newer to Ansible. I am trying to store the ansible running log to a file. And every playbook will have separate ansible running log file. I know I can use ‘export ANSIBLE\_LOG\_PATH=~/share/logging/peter.log’ this variable to do this. But is there any other way? I prefer a command line parameter or a module. I would like to do some development work but I need some directive guidance. I cannot use plugin because I cannot affect other ansible users, also I have no right to change the ansible.cfg file. Too much limitataion from the boss, right? Thanks for any help. Best Regards, Peter Qin ---
**Author:** ![Tchia04](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/fbc32d/32.png) [@Tchia04](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Tchia04)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2019, 6:37am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-store-ansible-running-log-to-separate-log-file-without-touch-ansible-log-path-or-ansible-cfg/29785/2 "2019-03-01T06:37:00Z")
How about running the ansible playbook Andy pipe to tee command such as this Ansible-playbook -I inventory dummy.yml | tee playbook.log ---
**Author:** ![Qin\_Peter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/a88e57/32.png) [@Qin\_Peter](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Qin_Peter)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2019, 6:47am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-store-ansible-running-log-to-separate-log-file-without-touch-ansible-log-path-or-ansible-cfg/29785/3 "2019-03-01T06:47:07Z")
Thanks for the help. The customer will execute the command so I should work in the playbook. And what I need to store is running log like below, not the stand output. Do you have any other suggestions? Thanks. 1 2019-02-28 21:27:57,795 p=6115 u=peterqi | PLAY [test1 output] \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\> 2 2019-02-28 21:27:57,806 p=6115 u=peterqi | TASK [Gathering Facts] \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\> 3 2019-02-28 21:27:58,259 paramiko.transport starting thread (client mode): 0xfa683450L 4 2019-02-28 21:27:58,259 paramiko.transport Local version/idstring: SSH-2.0-paramiko\_2.4.1 5 2019-02-28 21:27:58,267 paramiko.transport Remote version/idstring: SSH-2.0-OpenSSH\_6.6.1 6 2019-02-28 21:27:58,267 paramiko.transport Connected (version 2.0, client OpenSSH\_6.6.1) 7 2019-02-28 21:27:58,270 paramiko.transport kex algos:[u’curve25519-sha256@libssh.org’, u’ecdh-sha2-nistp256’, u’ecdh-sha2-nistp384’, u’ecdh-sha2-nistp521’, u’diffie-hellma\> 8 2019-02-28 21:27:58,270 paramiko.transport Kex agreed: ecdh-sha2-nistp256 9 2019-02-28 21:27:58,270 paramiko.transport HostKey agreed: ssh-ed25519 10 2019-02-28 21:27:58,270 paramiko.transport Cipher agreed: aes128-ctr 11 2019-02-28 21:27:58,270 paramiko.transport MAC agreed: hmac-sha2-256 12 2019-02-28 21:27:58,270 paramiko.transport Compression agreed: none 在 2019年3月1日星期五 UTC+8下午2:37:00，Tony Chia写道： ---
**Author:** ![Tchia04](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/fbc32d/32.png) [@Tchia04](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Tchia04)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2019, 2:46pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-store-ansible-running-log-to-separate-log-file-without-touch-ansible-log-path-or-ansible-cfg/29785/4 "2019-03-01T14:46:14Z")
If you are trying to get debug or connection info , try adding -vvvvv to tha ansible-playbook command. ---
**Author:** ![Mike\_Klebolt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/58956e/32.png) [@Mike\_Klebolt](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Mike_Klebolt)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2019, 9:47pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-store-ansible-running-log-to-separate-log-file-without-touch-ansible-log-path-or-ansible-cfg/29785/5 "2019-03-05T21:47:08Z")
Try creating an alias. `alias ansible-playbook='ANSIBLE_LOG_PATH="${HOME}/logs/ansible-$(date +%H%M%S).log" ansible-playbook'`