# Unable to change the default path of the pmm agent log

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**Category:** Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)\
**Created:** [May 13, 2023, 9:41pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/unable-to-change-the-default-path-of-the-pmm-agent-log/22042 "2023-05-13T21:41:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![Naresh9999](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/naresh9999/32/5568_2.png) [@Naresh9999](https://forums.percona.com/u/Naresh9999)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2023, 9:41pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/unable-to-change-the-default-path-of-the-pmm-agent-log/22042/1 "2023-05-13T21:41:29Z")

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I would like to change the PMM agent default log to custom log like below. But its not working and I followed the PMM documentation.

[root@rndsan404 maxctrl\_exporter]# cat /usr/lib/systemd/system/pmm-agent.service  
[Unit]  
Description=pmm-agent  
After=time-sync.target network.target

[Service]  
Type=simple  
ExecStart=/usr/sbin/pmm-agent --config-file=/usr/local/percona/pmm2/config/pmm-agent.yaml StandardError=file:/var/log/pmm-agent.log  
Restart=always  
RestartSec=2s  
StandardError=file:/var/log/pmm-agent.log

[Install]  
WantedBy=multi-user.target  
[root@rndsan404 maxctrl\_exporter]#

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> **[Percona Monitoring and Management - pmm-agent - PMM Client agent](https://docs.percona.com/percona-monitoring-and-management/details/commands/pmm-agent.html#logging)**
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**Author:** ![Vadim\_Yalovets](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/vadim_yalovets/32/43_2.png) [@Vadim\_Yalovets](https://forums.percona.com/u/Vadim_Yalovets)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2023, 6:15am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/unable-to-change-the-default-path-of-the-pmm-agent-log/22042/2 "2023-05-14T06:15:25Z")

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Hi @Naresh9999

Have you reloaded systemd manager configuration?

 ![Screenshot 2023-05-14 at 09.12.21](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/percona1/original/2X/a/a5f2f4ca6c52f271625785a96343eaac99a7c6ad.png)

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**Author:** ![Naresh9999](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/naresh9999/32/5568_2.png) [@Naresh9999](https://forums.percona.com/u/Naresh9999)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2023, 9:37am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/unable-to-change-the-default-path-of-the-pmm-agent-log/22042/3 "2023-05-14T09:37:38Z")

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Hi @Vadim_Yalovets

I followed the same steps but still I am unable to change the log file. Please find the OS and agent version details.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/percona1/original/2X/0/0fe7d015c930031ef8427c38ffc0456712e98ce7.png)

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**Author:** ![Vadim\_Yalovets](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/vadim_yalovets/32/43_2.png) [@Vadim\_Yalovets](https://forums.percona.com/u/Vadim_Yalovets)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2023, 4:10pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/unable-to-change-the-default-path-of-the-pmm-agent-log/22042/4 "2023-05-14T16:10:05Z")

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It looks like used systemd version is lower than 240.  
So in such case you should involve rsyslog to deal with logs.

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**Author:** ![Naresh9999](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/naresh9999/32/5568_2.png) [@Naresh9999](https://forums.percona.com/u/Naresh9999)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2023, 10:14am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/unable-to-change-the-default-path-of-the-pmm-agent-log/22042/5 "2023-05-15T10:14:42Z")

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Hi @Vadim_Yalovets

Thanks for the quick help, Its working fine.

Can I know from which systemd version it will work?