# Load-balancer: Temporarily enable haproxy logs for debugging

**URL:** <https://forums.suse.com/t/load-balancer-temporarily-enable-haproxy-logs-for-debugging/3734>\
**Category:** Rancher 1.x\
**Created:** [August 18, 2016, 3:37pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/load-balancer-temporarily-enable-haproxy-logs-for-debugging/3734 "2016-08-18T15:37:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![drmikecrowe](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/drmikecrowe/32/482_2.png) [@drmikecrowe](https://forums.suse.com/u/drmikecrowe)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2016, 3:37pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/load-balancer-temporarily-enable-haproxy-logs-for-debugging/3734/1 "2016-08-18T15:37:04Z")

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Hey folks,

I’m trying to track down some random 500 errors in my node.js app, and need to temporarily enable haproxy logs. Ideally, shipping these to an ELK stack.

Are there directions anywhere for doing this?

Thanks  
Mike

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**Author:** ![denise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/82dd89/32.png) [@denise](https://forums.suse.com/u/denise)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2016, 4:57am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/load-balancer-temporarily-enable-haproxy-logs-for-debugging/3734/2 "2016-08-19T04:57:21Z")

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Currently, logs are not available for haproxy, but it is targeted for v1.2.0.

[https://github.com/rancher/rancher/issues/2414](https://github.com/rancher/rancher/issues/2414)

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**Author:** ![sra](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/sra/32/1514_2.png) [@sra](https://forums.suse.com/u/sra)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2016, 1:46pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/load-balancer-temporarily-enable-haproxy-logs-for-debugging/3734/3 "2016-08-19T13:46:11Z")

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In the ELB configuration in the GUI you can add `option httplog` or in rancher-compose.yml:

```auto
elbservicename:
  load_balancer_config:
      defaults: |-
        option httplog

```

This is a hacky way to turn http logging on.