# Disabling colourised output from cardano-node? (colours, colors, colorised, colorized)

**URL:** <https://forum.cardano.org/t/disabling-colourised-output-from-cardano-node-colours-colors-colorised-colorized/114850>\
**Category:** Operate a Stake Pool\
**Created:** [25 February 2023 03:41 UTC](https://forum.cardano.org/t/disabling-colourised-output-from-cardano-node-colours-colors-colorised-colorized/114850 "2023-02-25T03:41:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![boli99](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/forum.cardano.org/boli99/32/56823_2.png) [@boli99](https://forum.cardano.org/u/boli99)\
**Post date:** [25 February 2023 03:41 UTC](https://forum.cardano.org/t/disabling-colourised-output-from-cardano-node-colours-colors-colorised-colorized/114850/1 "2023-02-25T03:41:44Z")

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I’m running cardano-node as a systemd service.

Colour escape-codes are cluttering up my logs

How can I disable them? I dont want colours. I dont need colours.

Thanks for any suggestions.

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**Author:** ![Terminada](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/forum.cardano.org/terminada/32/80229_2.png) [@Terminada](https://forum.cardano.org/u/Terminada)\
**Post date:** [25 February 2023 03:56 UTC](https://forum.cardano.org/t/disabling-colourised-output-from-cardano-node-colours-colors-colorised-colorized/114850/2 "2023-02-25T03:56:19Z")

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I don’t know what you are doing to create colours. My systemd journals have no colours.

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**Author:** ![COSDpool](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/forum.cardano.org/cosdpool/32/21482_2.png) [@COSDpool](https://forum.cardano.org/u/COSDpool)\
**Post date:** [26 February 2023 15:59 UTC](https://forum.cardano.org/t/disabling-colourised-output-from-cardano-node-colours-colors-colorised-colorized/114850/3 "2023-02-26T15:59:04Z")

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@boli99 Just letting you know that _yes_ I know exactly what you’re talking about… with the escape codes that generate colours in UNIX terminals being appended to the text-mode log files and `systemd` log messages… but that _no_ there does not seem to be a way to suppress them.

I actually adapted to having those colours displayed on a wide screen since monitoring my nodes this way helps with a visual impairment that I have. But sometimes (e.g. when opening the node logfile in text editor `vi`) the escape codes are a pain in the neck.

Looking at ways to filter these our or suppress them in `vi` or command line scripts for 2-3 years now, I have confirmed that there is no easy standard way of doing it. I’m also unaware of any option to `config.json` in `cardano-node` that suppresses the colour escape sequences either. 🧐

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**Author:** ![boli99](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/forum.cardano.org/boli99/32/56823_2.png) [@boli99](https://forum.cardano.org/u/boli99)\
**Post date:** [26 February 2023 17:36 UTC](https://forum.cardano.org/t/disabling-colourised-output-from-cardano-node-colours-colors-colorised-colorized/114850/4 "2023-02-26T17:36:02Z")

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thanks for your input - ive been continuing to experiment, and I had begun wondering if somehow it was related to not using a scribe of type journalSK (in mainnet-config.json)

…so I changed scribe to type journalSK, and now I’m getting absolutely **nothing** in the journal log other than

```auto
Feb 25 04:18:41 xxxxxx systemd[1]: Started Cardano Node Daemon.
Feb 25 04:18:44 xxxxxx cardano-node[1005914]: Listening on http://127.0.0.1:12798

```

although the node /is/ running, and I’m pulling prometheus metrics just fine for my monitoring.

So… I got my wish of the process journal being calmer (!) but I’m wondering if those logs are now just being recorded somewhere else that I havent found yet