# Does Percona Toolkit store its logs and where?

**URL:** <https://forums.percona.com/t/does-percona-toolkit-store-its-logs-and-where/18537>\
**Category:** Percona Toolkit\
**Created:** [November 14, 2022, 4:28pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/does-percona-toolkit-store-its-logs-and-where/18537 "2022-11-14T16:28:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mark\_Rehberger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ec9cab/32.png) [@Mark\_Rehberger](https://forums.percona.com/u/Mark_Rehberger)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2022, 4:28pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/does-percona-toolkit-store-its-logs-and-where/18537/1 "2022-11-14T16:28:54Z")

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Hi, does Percona Toolkit store its logs somewhere when a tool is executed? Thanks!

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**Author:** ![matthewb](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/matthewb/32/34_2.png) [@matthewb](https://forums.percona.com/u/matthewb)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2022, 5:00pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/does-percona-toolkit-store-its-logs-and-where/18537/2 "2022-11-14T17:00:23Z")

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Hello @Mark_Rehberger,  
The toolkit tools output directly to stdout. If you want to redirect to some log files you can do so with normal `>` redirection.