# Viewing Logs Older than Gateway view **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition\ **Created:** [April 17, 2024, 8:33pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/viewing-logs-older-than-gateway-view/89003 "2024-04-17T20:33:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![beckya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5a626/32.png) [@beckya](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/beckya)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2024, 8:33pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/viewing-logs-older-than-gateway-view/89003/1 "2024-04-17T20:33:26Z")
Is there a way to view logs older than what we can see in the gateway log view? ---
**Author:** ![paul-griffith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/paul-griffith/32/37249_2.png) [@paul-griffith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/paul-griffith)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2024, 9:00pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/viewing-logs-older-than-gateway-view/89003/2 "2024-04-17T21:00:40Z")
You _might_ have more logs in the `wrapper.log` files, in `$gatewayInstallLocation/logs` - by default, they're sequentially named "rolling" files, so `wrapper.log` has the newest events, and `wrapper.log.5` has the oldest events. Whether this will actually have a longer duration is impossible to know, however. The wrapper.log files are kept to ~10mB for 5 rolling files. The gateway logs are kept to ~50,000 events, truncated every minute. The exact timestamp is fluid because different types of logged messages (and especially, their associated stacktrace) will consume different amounts of space. ---
**Author:** ![beckya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5a626/32.png) [@beckya](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/beckya)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2024, 1:11pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/viewing-logs-older-than-gateway-view/89003/3 "2024-04-18T13:11:25Z")
Thank you, I was able to locate those files, unfortunately they contain the same info as what is in the gateway so I can't go back further. Thank you for pointing me to the right place. ---
**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2024, 1:33pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/viewing-logs-older-than-gateway-view/89003/4 "2024-04-18T13:33:31Z")
The duration, rollover size, and number to keep is configurable in ignition.conf. ---
**Author:** ![beckya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5a626/32.png) [@beckya](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/beckya)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2024, 1:40pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/viewing-logs-older-than-gateway-view/89003/6 "2024-04-18T13:40:54Z")
Where under Config do I change the settings for logs? ---
**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2024, 1:44pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/viewing-logs-older-than-gateway-view/89003/7 "2024-04-18T13:44:05Z")
It's not in the gateway web interface. It is a config **file** in the install folder. Restart the gateway after changing it. ---
**Author:** ![beckya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5a626/32.png) [@beckya](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/beckya)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2024, 2:02pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/viewing-logs-older-than-gateway-view/89003/8 "2024-04-18T14:02:16Z")
Thanks, I don't see anything like that, see photo: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/c/d/cd97b44fab684d86e1486fe2f30de5ed70061cea.png) ---
**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2024, 2:18pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/viewing-logs-older-than-gateway-view/89003/9 "2024-04-18T14:18:21Z")
It'll be easier to see if you turn on display of file extensions. (I **really** despise Windows for that kind of BS.) ---
**Author:** ![paul-griffith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/paul-griffith/32/37249_2.png) [@paul-griffith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/paul-griffith)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2024, 2:35pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/viewing-logs-older-than-gateway-view/89003/10 "2024-04-18T14:35:10Z")
It's a file called ignition.conf in the install directory. Wrapper log configuration is documented here: [https://wrapper.tanukisoftware.com/doc/english/props-logging.html](https://wrapper.tanukisoftware.com/doc/english/props-logging.html)