# Filter log severity in system console

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/filter-log-severity-in-system-console/8325>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [April 16, 2014, 5:40pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/filter-log-severity-in-system-console/8325 "2014-04-16T17:40:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![iamthebull](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@iamthebull](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/iamthebull)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2014, 5:40pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/filter-log-severity-in-system-console/8325/1 "2014-04-16T17:40:56Z")

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In the system console in the gateway there is a severity drop down. I assumed that if I selected WARN, for example, that it would filter the log and show me only the warnings. It’s not doing that… should it?

Ignition 7.6.6 on Win 7

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**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2014, 5:47pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/filter-log-severity-in-system-console/8325/2 "2014-04-16T17:47:25Z")

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When you change the level for a logger you aren’t applying a filter to the existing logs, you’re applying a filter to the what level it requires for that particular logger’s messages to make it to the console from that point on.

So changing a logger to WARN should mean that in the future only WARN or higher level messages from that logger make it to the console.

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**Author:** ![iamthebull](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@iamthebull](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/iamthebull)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2014, 5:50pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/filter-log-severity-in-system-console/8325/3 "2014-04-16T17:50:16Z")

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Ok. Clear.

Is there a way to filter the log at all? If not, could you consider this a feature request to do so?

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**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2014, 5:57pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/filter-log-severity-in-system-console/8325/4 "2014-04-16T17:57:42Z")

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[quote=“iamthebull”]Ok. Clear.

Is there a way to filter the log at all? If not, could you consider this a feature request to do so?[/quote]

Making that log console suck considerably less is something we’re hoping to get done for 7.7.