# Persist service logs externally

**URL:** <https://forums.suse.com/t/persist-service-logs-externally/7028>\
**Category:** Rancher 1.x\
**Created:** [August 4, 2017, 10:07am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/persist-service-logs-externally/7028 "2017-08-04T10:07:35Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 4, 2017, 10:07am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/persist-service-logs-externally/7028/1 "2017-08-04T10:07:35Z")

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Currently the service logs are available in the UI (Stacks --\> Service --\> Log tab) and via the API but only for the last 24h.  
Is there any good way to persist these logs externally (Splunk, ELK, etc), or would I have to query using the API?