# How to use structured logging

**URL:** <https://community.influxdata.com/t/how-to-use-structured-logging/2797>\
**Category:** Systems\
**Tags:** influxdb\
**Created:** [October 19, 2017, 8:48am UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/how-to-use-structured-logging/2797 "2017-10-19T08:48:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![tom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@tom](https://community.influxdata.com/u/tom)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2017, 8:48am UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/how-to-use-structured-logging/2797/1 "2017-10-19T08:48:21Z")

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I upgraded to 1.3.5 in order to get the structured logging that was introduced in 1.2.0. I understood that this would cause all log outputs to be in a json format which is what I need for import into graylog. The logging hasn’t changed and I can’t find anything in the documents to tell me how to switch this structured logging on. Anyone able to tell me how?