# Custom Access logs format

**URL:** <https://discuss.konghq.com/t/custom-access-logs-format/4580>\
**Category:** Questions\
**Tags:** kubernetes\
**Created:** [October 7, 2019, 3:40pm UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/custom-access-logs-format/4580 "2019-10-07T15:40:31Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 7, 2019, 3:55pm UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/custom-access-logs-format/4580/2 "2019-10-07T15:55:42Z")

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I know there is a way to log it as a JSON structure:

> [@Default logs in JSON](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/default-logs-in-json/3355/2):
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> Solved, i´ve created a new custom-nginx.template with this: http { log\_format json\_combined escape=json ‘{’ ‘“time\_local”:"$time\_iso8601",’ ‘“remote\_addr”:"$remote\_addr",’ ‘“request”:"$request",’ ‘“status”: “$status”,’ ‘“request\_time”:"$request\_time",’ ‘“connection\_requests”:"$connection\_requests",’ ‘“http\_user\_agent”:"$http\_user\_agent"’ ‘}’; access\_log ${{PROXY\_ACCESS\_LOG}} json\_combined; include ‘nginx-kong-template.conf’; } and on start do kong start -c kong.yml --nginx-conf cu…

`json_combined` arg

Not sure if thats what you were thinking about doing.

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