diff --git a/be/src/common/config.cpp b/be/src/common/config.cpp
index dd5d68dfbf09fc..399975f9791103 100644
--- a/be/src/common/config.cpp
+++ b/be/src/common/config.cpp
@@ -199,10 +199,8 @@ DEFINE_mInt32(download_low_speed_limit_kbps, "50");
 // download low speed time(seconds)
 DEFINE_mInt32(download_low_speed_time, "300");
 
-// log dir
-DEFINE_String(sys_log_dir, "${DORIS_HOME}/log");
+DEFINE_String(sys_log_dir, "");
 DEFINE_String(user_function_dir, "${DORIS_HOME}/lib/udf");
-DEFINE_String(pipeline_tracing_log_dir, "${DORIS_HOME}/log/tracing");
 // INFO, WARNING, ERROR, FATAL
 DEFINE_mString(sys_log_level, "INFO");
 // TIME-DAY, TIME-HOUR, SIZE-MB-nnn
diff --git a/be/src/common/config.h b/be/src/common/config.h
index d8c77bf94964d3..59e7def3103cfc 100644
--- a/be/src/common/config.h
+++ b/be/src/common/config.h
@@ -247,10 +247,10 @@ DECLARE_mInt32(download_low_speed_limit_kbps);
 // download low speed time(seconds)
 DECLARE_mInt32(download_low_speed_time);
 
-// log dir
+// deprecated, use env var LOG_DIR in be.conf
 DECLARE_String(sys_log_dir);
+// for udf
 DECLARE_String(user_function_dir);
-DECLARE_String(pipeline_tracing_log_dir);
 // INFO, WARNING, ERROR, FATAL
 DECLARE_String(sys_log_level);
 // TIME-DAY, TIME-HOUR, SIZE-MB-nnn
diff --git a/be/src/common/logconfig.cpp b/be/src/common/logconfig.cpp
index bae037066aea82..bf408272776984 100644
--- a/be/src/common/logconfig.cpp
+++ b/be/src/common/logconfig.cpp
@@ -63,7 +63,12 @@ bool init_glog(const char* basename) {
     // so fatal log can output to be.out .
     FLAGS_stderrthreshold = google::FATAL;
     // set glog log dir
-    FLAGS_log_dir = config::sys_log_dir;
+    // ATTN: sys_log_dir is deprecated, this is just for compatibility
+    std::string log_dir = config::sys_log_dir;
+    if (log_dir == "") {
+        log_dir = getenv("LOG_DIR");
+    }
+    FLAGS_log_dir = log_dir;
     // 0 means buffer INFO only
     FLAGS_logbuflevel = 0;
     // buffer log messages for at most this many seconds
diff --git a/be/src/olap/compaction.cpp b/be/src/olap/compaction.cpp
index 09e128d933bbfe..19b4d03c346d66 100644
--- a/be/src/olap/compaction.cpp
+++ b/be/src/olap/compaction.cpp
@@ -489,7 +489,7 @@ Status Compaction::do_compaction_impl(int64_t permits) {
                                               const std::string& file_name) {
                     io::FileWriterPtr file_writer;
                     std::string file_path =
-                            fmt::format("{}/{}.json", config::sys_log_dir, file_name);
+                            fmt::format("{}/{}.json", std::string(getenv("LOG_DIR")), file_name);
                     RETURN_IF_ERROR(
                             io::global_local_filesystem()->create_file(file_path, &file_writer));
                     RETURN_IF_ERROR(file_writer->append(json_obj.dump()));
diff --git a/be/src/pipeline/pipeline_tracing.cpp b/be/src/pipeline/pipeline_tracing.cpp
index f635f49682fca4..efe9667f2b57dc 100644
--- a/be/src/pipeline/pipeline_tracing.cpp
+++ b/be/src/pipeline/pipeline_tracing.cpp
@@ -95,10 +95,11 @@ void PipelineTracerContext::_dump(TUniqueId query_id) {
         return;
     }
 
+    std::filesystem::path log_dir = fmt::format("{}/pipe_tracing", getenv("LOG_DIR"));
     //TODO: when dump, now could append records but can't add new query. try use better grained locks.
     std::unique_lock<std::mutex> l(_data_lock); // can't rehash
     if (_dump_type == RecordType::PerQuery) {
-        auto path = _dir / fmt::format("query{}", to_string(query_id));
+        auto path = log_dir / fmt::format("query{}", to_string(query_id));
         int fd = ::open(
                 path.c_str(), O_CREAT | O_WRONLY | O_TRUNC,
                 S_ISGID | S_ISUID | S_IWUSR | S_IRUSR | S_IWGRP | S_IRGRP | S_IWOTH | S_IROTH);
@@ -123,8 +124,9 @@ void PipelineTracerContext::_dump(TUniqueId query_id) {
         THROW_IF_ERROR(writer.finalize());
         THROW_IF_ERROR(writer.close());
     } else if (_dump_type == RecordType::Periodic) {
-        auto path = _dir / fmt::format("until{}",
-                                       std::chrono::steady_clock::now().time_since_epoch().count());
+        auto path =
+                log_dir /
+                fmt::format("until{}", std::chrono::steady_clock::now().time_since_epoch().count());
         int fd = ::open(
                 path.c_str(), O_CREAT | O_WRONLY | O_TRUNC,
                 S_ISGID | S_ISUID | S_IWUSR | S_IRUSR | S_IWGRP | S_IRGRP | S_IWOTH | S_IROTH);
diff --git a/be/src/pipeline/pipeline_tracing.h b/be/src/pipeline/pipeline_tracing.h
index adebd84b05fc6c..e4e4d4e4e7d2ec 100644
--- a/be/src/pipeline/pipeline_tracing.h
+++ b/be/src/pipeline/pipeline_tracing.h
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ struct ScheduleRecord {
 using OneQueryTraces = moodycamel::ConcurrentQueue<ScheduleRecord>;
 
 // belongs to exec_env, for all query, if enable
+// curl http://{host}:{web_server_port}/api/running_pipeline_tasks
 class PipelineTracerContext {
 public:
     enum class RecordType {
@@ -75,7 +76,6 @@ class PipelineTracerContext {
     phmap::flat_hash_map<TUniqueId, uint64_t> _id_to_workload_group;
 
     RecordType _dump_type = RecordType::None;
-    std::filesystem::path _dir = config::pipeline_tracing_log_dir;
     decltype(MonotonicSeconds()) _last_dump_time;
     decltype(MonotonicSeconds()) _dump_interval_s =
             60; // effective iff Periodic mode. 1 minute default.
diff --git a/bin/start_be.sh b/bin/start_be.sh
index a551d295b4c1b7..06679eb1b375d5 100755
--- a/bin/start_be.sh
+++ b/bin/start_be.sh
@@ -208,6 +208,8 @@ if [[ -e "${DORIS_HOME}/bin/palo_env.sh" ]]; then
     source "${DORIS_HOME}/bin/palo_env.sh"
 fi
 
+export PPROF_TMPDIR="${LOG_DIR}"
+
 if [[ -z "${JAVA_HOME}" ]]; then
     echo "The JAVA_HOME environment variable is not defined correctly"
     echo "This environment variable is needed to run this program"
diff --git a/conf/be.conf b/conf/be.conf
index 4d8677aece7096..cd66596501f21a 100644
--- a/conf/be.conf
+++ b/conf/be.conf
@@ -17,15 +17,16 @@
 
 CUR_DATE=`date +%Y%m%d-%H%M%S`
 
-PPROF_TMPDIR="$DORIS_HOME/log/"
+# Log dir
+LOG_DIR="${DORIS_HOME}/log/"
 
-JAVA_OPTS="-Xmx1024m -DlogPath=$DORIS_HOME/log/jni.log -Xloggc:$DORIS_HOME/log/be.gc.log.$CUR_DATE -Djavax.security.auth.useSubjectCredsOnly=false -Dsun.security.krb5.debug=true -Dsun.java.command=DorisBE -XX:-CriticalJNINatives"
+JAVA_OPTS="-Xmx1024m -DlogPath=$LOG_DIR/jni.log -Xloggc:$DORIS_HOME/log/be.gc.log.$CUR_DATE -Djavax.security.auth.useSubjectCredsOnly=false -Dsun.security.krb5.debug=true -Dsun.java.command=DorisBE -XX:-CriticalJNINatives"
 
 # For jdk 9+, this JAVA_OPTS will be used as default JVM options
-JAVA_OPTS_FOR_JDK_9="-Xmx1024m -DlogPath=$DORIS_HOME/log/jni.log -Xlog:gc:$DORIS_HOME/log/be.gc.log.$CUR_DATE -Djavax.security.auth.useSubjectCredsOnly=false -Dsun.security.krb5.debug=true -Dsun.java.command=DorisBE -XX:-CriticalJNINatives"
+JAVA_OPTS_FOR_JDK_9="-Xmx1024m -DlogPath=$DORIS_HOME/log/jni.log -Xlog:gc:$LOG_DIR/be.gc.log.$CUR_DATE -Djavax.security.auth.useSubjectCredsOnly=false -Dsun.security.krb5.debug=true -Dsun.java.command=DorisBE -XX:-CriticalJNINatives"
 
 # For jdk 17+, this JAVA_OPTS will be used as default JVM options
-JAVA_OPTS_FOR_JDK_17="-Xmx1024m -DlogPath=$DORIS_HOME/log/jni.log -Xlog:gc:$DORIS_HOME/log/be.gc.log.$CUR_DATE -Djavax.security.auth.useSubjectCredsOnly=false -Dsun.security.krb5.debug=true -Dsun.java.command=DorisBE -XX:-CriticalJNINatives --add-opens=java.base/java.net=ALL-UNNAMED"
+JAVA_OPTS_FOR_JDK_17="-Xmx1024m -DlogPath=$LOG_DIR/jni.log -Xlog:gc:$LOG_DIR/be.gc.log.$CUR_DATE -Djavax.security.auth.useSubjectCredsOnly=false -Dsun.security.krb5.debug=true -Dsun.java.command=DorisBE -XX:-CriticalJNINatives --add-opens=java.base/java.net=ALL-UNNAMED"
 
 # since 1.2, the JAVA_HOME need to be set to run BE process.
 # JAVA_HOME=/path/to/jdk/
@@ -35,9 +36,6 @@ JAVA_OPTS_FOR_JDK_17="-Xmx1024m -DlogPath=$DORIS_HOME/log/jni.log -Xlog:gc:$DORI
 JEMALLOC_CONF="percpu_arena:percpu,background_thread:true,metadata_thp:auto,muzzy_decay_ms:15000,dirty_decay_ms:15000,oversize_threshold:0,prof:false,lg_prof_interval:32,lg_prof_sample:19,prof_gdump:false,prof_accum:false,prof_leak:false,prof_final:false"
 JEMALLOC_PROF_PRFIX=""
 
-# INFO, WARNING, ERROR, FATAL
-sys_log_level = INFO
-
 # ports for admin, web, heartbeat service 
 be_port = 9060
 webserver_port = 8040
@@ -77,7 +75,8 @@ ssl_private_key_path = "$DORIS_HOME/conf/key.pem"
 # jdbc_drivers_dir = ${DORIS_HOME}/jdbc_drivers
 
 # Advanced configurations
-# sys_log_dir = ${DORIS_HOME}/log
+# INFO, WARNING, ERROR, FATAL
+sys_log_level = INFO
 # sys_log_roll_mode = SIZE-MB-1024
 # sys_log_roll_num = 10
 # sys_log_verbose_modules = *
diff --git a/conf/fe.conf b/conf/fe.conf
index 66794ddf3fa7ad..845dce87cdb6b4 100644
--- a/conf/fe.conf
+++ b/conf/fe.conf
@@ -23,34 +23,28 @@
 
 CUR_DATE=`date +%Y%m%d-%H%M%S`
 
-# the output dir of stderr and stdout 
+# Log dir
 LOG_DIR = ${DORIS_HOME}/log
 
 # CMS JAVA OPTS
 # JAVA_OPTS="-Dsun.security.krb5.debug=true -Djavax.security.auth.useSubjectCredsOnly=false -Xss4m -Xmx8192m -XX:+UseMembar -XX:SurvivorRatio=8 -XX:MaxTenuringThreshold=7 -XX:+PrintGCDateStamps -XX:+PrintGCDetails -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -XX:+UseParNewGC -XX:+CMSClassUnloadingEnabled -XX:-CMSParallelRemarkEnabled -XX:CMSInitiatingOccupancyFraction=80 -XX:SoftRefLRUPolicyMSPerMB=0 -Xloggc:$DORIS_HOME/log/fe.gc.log.$CUR_DATE"
 
 # G1 JAVA OPTS
-JAVA_OPTS="-Djavax.security.auth.useSubjectCredsOnly=false -Xss4m -Xmx8192m -XX:+UnlockExperimentalVMOptions -XX:+UseG1GC -XX:MaxGCPauseMillis=200 -XX:+PrintGCDateStamps -XX:+PrintGCDetails -Xloggc:$DORIS_HOME/log/fe.gc.log.$CUR_DATE -Dlog4j2.formatMsgNoLookups=true"
+JAVA_OPTS="-Djavax.security.auth.useSubjectCredsOnly=false -Xss4m -Xmx8192m -XX:+UnlockExperimentalVMOptions -XX:+UseG1GC -XX:MaxGCPauseMillis=200 -XX:+PrintGCDateStamps -XX:+PrintGCDetails -Xloggc:$LOG_DIR/fe.gc.log.$CUR_DATE -Dlog4j2.formatMsgNoLookups=true"
 
 # For jdk 9+, this JAVA_OPTS_FOR_JDK_9 will be used as default CMS JVM options
 # JAVA_OPTS_FOR_JDK_9="-Dsun.security.krb5.debug=true -Djavax.security.auth.useSubjectCredsOnly=false -Xss4m -Xmx8192m -XX:SurvivorRatio=8 -XX:MaxTenuringThreshold=7 -XX:+CMSClassUnloadingEnabled -XX:-CMSParallelRemarkEnabled -XX:CMSInitiatingOccupancyFraction=80 -XX:SoftRefLRUPolicyMSPerMB=0 -Xlog:gc*:$DORIS_HOME/log/fe.gc.log.$CUR_DATE:time"
 
 # For jdk 9+, this JAVA_OPTS_FOR_JDK_9 will be used as default G1 JVM options
-JAVA_OPTS_FOR_JDK_9="-Djavax.security.auth.useSubjectCredsOnly=false -Xss4m -Xmx8192m -XX:+UseG1GC -XX:MaxGCPauseMillis=200 -Xlog:gc*:$DORIS_HOME/log/fe.gc.log.$CUR_DATE:time -Dlog4j2.formatMsgNoLookups=true"
+JAVA_OPTS_FOR_JDK_9="-Djavax.security.auth.useSubjectCredsOnly=false -Xss4m -Xmx8192m -XX:+UseG1GC -XX:MaxGCPauseMillis=200 -Xlog:gc*:$LOG_DIR/fe.gc.log.$CUR_DATE:time -Dlog4j2.formatMsgNoLookups=true"
 
 # For jdk 17+, this JAVA_OPTS will be used as default JVM options
-JAVA_OPTS_FOR_JDK_17="-Djavax.security.auth.useSubjectCredsOnly=false -XX:+UseZGC -Xmx8192m -Xms8192m -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -XX:HeapDumpPath=$DORIS_HOME/log/ -Xlog:gc*:$DORIS_HOME/log/fe.gc.log.$CUR_DATE:time"
+JAVA_OPTS_FOR_JDK_17="-Djavax.security.auth.useSubjectCredsOnly=false -XX:+UseZGC -Xmx8192m -Xms8192m -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -XX:HeapDumpPath=$LOG_DIR/ -Xlog:gc*:$LOG_DIR/fe.gc.log.$CUR_DATE:time"
 
 ##
 ## the lowercase properties are read by main program.
 ##
 
-# INFO, WARN, ERROR, FATAL
-sys_log_level = INFO
-
-# NORMAL, BRIEF, ASYNC
-sys_log_mode = NORMAL
-
 # store metadata, must be created before start FE.
 # Default value is ${DORIS_HOME}/doris-meta
 # meta_dir = ${DORIS_HOME}/doris-meta
@@ -73,10 +67,13 @@ arrow_flight_sql_port = -1
 
 # Advanced configurations 
 # log_roll_size_mb = 1024
-# sys_log_dir = ${DORIS_HOME}/log
+# INFO, WARN, ERROR, FATAL
+sys_log_level = INFO
+# NORMAL, BRIEF, ASYNC
+sys_log_mode = NORMAL
 # sys_log_roll_num = 10
 # sys_log_verbose_modules = org.apache.doris
-# audit_log_dir = ${DORIS_HOME}/log
+# audit_log_dir = $LOG_DIR
 # audit_log_modules = slow_query, query
 # audit_log_roll_num = 10
 # meta_delay_toleration_second = 10
diff --git a/fe/fe-common/src/main/java/org/apache/doris/common/Config.java b/fe/fe-common/src/main/java/org/apache/doris/common/Config.java
index 7fc14ecff4c414..9da0e0a45ea4e5 100644
--- a/fe/fe-common/src/main/java/org/apache/doris/common/Config.java
+++ b/fe/fe-common/src/main/java/org/apache/doris/common/Config.java
@@ -62,9 +62,10 @@ public class Config extends ConfigBase {
      * sys_log_enable_compress:
      *      default is false. if true, will compress fe.log & fe.warn.log by gzip
      */
+    @Deprecated // use env var LOG_DIR instead
     @ConfField(description = {"FE 日志文件的存放路径，用于存放 fe.log。",
             "The path of the FE log file, used to store fe.log"})
-    public static String sys_log_dir = System.getenv("DORIS_HOME") + "/log";
+    public static String sys_log_dir = "";
 
     @ConfField(description = {"FE 日志的级别", "The level of FE log"}, options = {"INFO", "WARN", "ERROR", "FATAL"})
     public static String sys_log_level = "INFO";
@@ -101,7 +102,7 @@ public class Config extends ConfigBase {
 
     @ConfField(description = {"FE 审计日志文件的存放路径，用于存放 fe.audit.log。",
             "The path of the FE audit log file, used to store fe.audit.log"})
-    public static String audit_log_dir = System.getenv("DORIS_HOME") + "/log";
+    public static String audit_log_dir = System.getenv("LOG_DIR");
     @ConfField(description = {"FE 审计日志文件的最大数量。超过这个数量后，最老的日志文件会被删除",
             "The maximum number of FE audit log files. "
                     + "After exceeding this number, the oldest log file will be deleted"})
@@ -570,7 +571,7 @@ public class Config extends ConfigBase {
     public static String spark_resource_path = "";
 
     @ConfField(description = {"Spark launcher 日志路径", "Spark launcher log dir"})
-    public static String spark_launcher_log_dir = sys_log_dir + "/spark_launcher_log";
+    public static String spark_launcher_log_dir = System.getenv("LOG_DIR") + "/spark_launcher_log";
 
     @ConfField(description = {"Yarn client 的路径", "Yarn client path"})
     public static String yarn_client_path = System.getenv("DORIS_HOME") + "/lib/yarn-client/hadoop/bin/yarn";
@@ -2468,7 +2469,7 @@ public class Config extends ConfigBase {
 
     @ConfField(description = {"nereids trace文件的存放路径。",
             "The path of the nereids trace file."})
-    public static String nereids_trace_log_dir = System.getenv("DORIS_HOME") + "/log/nereids_trace";
+    public static String nereids_trace_log_dir = System.getenv("LOG_DIR") + "/nereids_trace";
 
     @ConfField(mutable = true, masterOnly = true, description = {
             "备份过程中，分配给每个be的upload任务最大个数，默认值为3个。",
diff --git a/fe/fe-common/src/main/java/org/apache/doris/common/io/DiskUtils.java b/fe/fe-common/src/main/java/org/apache/doris/common/io/DiskUtils.java
index 4861f40fe8a67c..9e0a449c2ac386 100644
--- a/fe/fe-common/src/main/java/org/apache/doris/common/io/DiskUtils.java
+++ b/fe/fe-common/src/main/java/org/apache/doris/common/io/DiskUtils.java
@@ -44,7 +44,6 @@ public static Df df(String dir) {
             return df;
         }
 
-
         Process process;
         try {
             process = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("df -k " + dir);
diff --git a/fe/fe-core/src/main/java/org/apache/doris/common/Log4jConfig.java b/fe/fe-core/src/main/java/org/apache/doris/common/Log4jConfig.java
index 47d96765a9c30c..5178a2bcb8ed1c 100644
--- a/fe/fe-core/src/main/java/org/apache/doris/common/Log4jConfig.java
+++ b/fe/fe-core/src/main/java/org/apache/doris/common/Log4jConfig.java
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 
 import org.apache.doris.httpv2.config.SpringLog4j2Config;
 
+import com.google.common.base.Strings;
 import com.google.common.collect.Maps;
 import org.apache.logging.log4j.LogManager;
 import org.apache.logging.log4j.core.LoggerContext;
@@ -130,7 +131,9 @@ private static void reconfig() throws IOException {
         String newXmlConfTemplate = xmlConfTemplate;
 
         // sys log config
-        String sysLogDir = Config.sys_log_dir;
+        // ATTN, sys_log_dir is deprecated, use LOG_DIR instead
+        String sysLogDir = Strings.isNullOrEmpty(Config.sys_log_dir) ? System.getenv("LOG_DIR") :
+                Config.sys_log_dir;
         String sysRollNum = String.valueOf(Config.sys_log_roll_num);
         String sysDeleteAge = String.valueOf(Config.sys_log_delete_age);
         boolean compressSysLog = Config.sys_log_enable_compress;
diff --git a/fe/fe-core/src/main/java/org/apache/doris/httpv2/controller/LogController.java b/fe/fe-core/src/main/java/org/apache/doris/httpv2/controller/LogController.java
index 35656f5c4fb06b..d9d3dadfdf9bf8 100644
--- a/fe/fe-core/src/main/java/org/apache/doris/httpv2/controller/LogController.java
+++ b/fe/fe-core/src/main/java/org/apache/doris/httpv2/controller/LogController.java
@@ -109,7 +109,8 @@ private void appendLogConf(Map<String, Map<String, String>> content, String addV
     private void appendLogInfo(Map<String, Map<String, String>> content) {
         Map<String, String> map = new HashMap<>();
 
-        final String logPath = Config.sys_log_dir + "/fe.warn.log";
+        String logDir = Strings.isNullOrEmpty(Config.sys_log_dir) ? System.getenv("LOG_DIR") : Config.sys_log_dir;
+        final String logPath = logDir + "/fe.warn.log";
         map.put("logPath", logPath);
 
         RandomAccessFile raf = null;
diff --git a/fe/fe-core/src/main/java/org/apache/doris/service/ExecuteEnv.java b/fe/fe-core/src/main/java/org/apache/doris/service/ExecuteEnv.java
index ed1ae82a0325a8..2064bfb267fe39 100755
--- a/fe/fe-core/src/main/java/org/apache/doris/service/ExecuteEnv.java
+++ b/fe/fe-core/src/main/java/org/apache/doris/service/ExecuteEnv.java
@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@
 import org.apache.doris.qe.ConnectScheduler;
 import org.apache.doris.qe.MultiLoadMgr;
 
+import com.google.common.base.Strings;
+
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.List;
 
@@ -40,9 +42,11 @@ private ExecuteEnv() {
         scheduler = new ConnectScheduler(Config.qe_max_connection);
         startupTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
         processUUID = System.currentTimeMillis();
+        String logDir = Strings.isNullOrEmpty(Config.sys_log_dir) ? System.getenv("LOG_DIR") :
+                Config.sys_log_dir;
         diskInfos = new ArrayList<FeDiskInfo>() {{
                 add(new FeDiskInfo("meta", Config.meta_dir, DiskUtils.df(Config.meta_dir)));
-                add(new FeDiskInfo("log", Config.sys_log_dir, DiskUtils.df(Config.sys_log_dir)));
+                add(new FeDiskInfo("log", logDir, DiskUtils.df(logDir)));
                 add(new FeDiskInfo("audit-log", Config.audit_log_dir, DiskUtils.df(Config.audit_log_dir)));
                 add(new FeDiskInfo("temp", Config.tmp_dir, DiskUtils.df(Config.tmp_dir)));
                 add(new FeDiskInfo("deploy", System.getenv("DORIS_HOME"), DiskUtils.df(System.getenv("DORIS_HOME"))));