elasticsearch/docs/reference/setup/important-settings/gc-logging.asciidoc

[[gc-logging]]
=== GC logging

By default, Elasticsearch enables GC logs. These are configured in
<<jvm-options,`jvm.options`>> and default to the same default location as the
Elasticsearch logs. The default configuration rotates the logs every 64 MB and
can consume up to 2 GB of disk space.