Summary

Name

http-logger is a plugin which push Log data requests to HTTP/HTTPS servers.

This will provide the ability to send Log data requests as JSON objects to Monitoring tools and other HTTP servers.

Attributes

NameTypeRequirementDefaultValidDescription
uristringrequiredURI of the server
auth_headerstringoptional""Any authorization headers
timeoutintegeroptional3[1,...]Time to keep the connection alive after sending a request
namestringoptional“http logger”A unique identifier to identity the logger
batch_max_sizeintegeroptional1000[1,...]Max size of each batch
inactive_timeoutintegeroptional5[1,...]Maximum age in seconds when the buffer will be flushed if inactive
buffer_durationintegeroptional60[1,...]Maximum age in seconds of the oldest entry in a batch before the batch must be processed
max_retry_countintegeroptional0[0,...]Maximum number of retries before removing from the processing pipe line
retry_delayintegeroptional1[0,...]Number of seconds the process execution should be delayed if the execution fails
include_req_bodybooleanoptionalfalseWhether to include the request body
concat_methodstringoptional“json”Enum type, json and new_line. json: use json.encode for all pending logs. new_line: use json.encode for each pending log and concat them with “\n” line.

How To Enable

The following is an example on how to enable the http-logger for a specific route.

curl http://127.0.0.1:9180/apisix/admin/routes/1 -H 'X-API-KEY: edd1c9f034335f136f87ad84b625c8f1' -X PUT -d '
{
      "plugins": {
            "http-logger": {
                "uri": "http://127.0.0.1:80/postendpoint?param=1",
            }
       },
      "upstream": {
           "type": "roundrobin",
           "nodes": {
               "127.0.0.1:1980": 1
           }
      },
      "uri": "/hello"
}'

Test Plugin

success:

$ curl -i http://127.0.0.1:9080/hello
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
...
hello, world

Metadata

NameTypeRequirementDefaultValidDescription
log_formatobjectoptionalLog format declared as JSON object. Only string is supported in the value part. If the value starts with $, the value is Nginx variable.

Note that the metadata configuration is applied in global scope, which means it will take effect on all Route or Service which use http-logger plugin.

Example

curl http://127.0.0.1:9180/apisix/admin/plugin_metadata/http-logger -H 'X-API-KEY: edd1c9f034335f136f87ad84b625c8f1' -X PUT -d '
{
    "log_format": {
        "host": "$host",
        "@timestamp": "$time_iso8601",
        "client_ip": "$remote_addr"
    }
}'

It is expected to see some logs like that:

{"host":"localhost","@timestamp":"2020-09-23T19:05:05-04:00","client_ip":"127.0.0.1","route_id":"1"}
{"host":"localhost","@timestamp":"2020-09-23T19:05:05-04:00","client_ip":"127.0.0.1","route_id":"1"}

Disable Plugin

Remove the corresponding json configuration in the plugin configuration to disable the http-logger. APISIX plugins are hot-reloaded, therefore no need to restart APISIX.

$ curl http://127.0.0.1:2379/apisix/admin/routes/1  -H 'X-API-KEY: edd1c9f034335f136f87ad84b625c8f1' -X PUT -d value='
{
    "uri": "/hello",
    "plugins": {},
    "upstream": {
        "type": "roundrobin",
        "nodes": {
            "127.0.0.1:1980": 1
        }
    }
}'