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Summary

• Name
• Attributes
• Info
• How To Enable
• Test Plugin
• Disable Plugin

Name

kafka-logger is a plugin which works as a Kafka client driver for the ngx_lua nginx module.

This will provide the ability to send Log data requests as JSON objects to external Kafka clusters.

This plugin provides the ability to push Log data as a batch to you‘re external Kafka topics. In case if you did not recieve the log data don’t worry give it some time it will automatically send the logs after the timer function expires in our Batch Processor.

For more info on Batch-Processor in Apache APISIX please refer. Batch-Processor

Attributes

Name	Type	Requirement	Default	Valid	Description
broker_list	object	required			An array of Kafka brokers.
kafka_topic	string	required			Target topic to push data.
key	string	optional			Used for partition allocation of messages.
timeout	integer	optional	3	[1,...]	Timeout for the upstream to send data.
name	string	optional	“kafka logger”		A unique identifier to identity the batch processor
meta_format	string	optional	“default”	enum: default, origin	default: collect the request information with detfault JSON way. origin: collect the request information with original HTTP request. example
batch_max_size	integer	optional	1000	[1,...]	Max size of each batch
inactive_timeout	integer	optional	5	[1,...]	Maximum age in seconds when the buffer will be flushed if inactive
buffer_duration	integer	optional	60	[1,...]	Maximum age in seconds of the oldest entry in a batch before the batch must be processed
max_retry_count	integer	optional	0	[0,...]	Maximum number of retries before removing from the processing pipe line
retry_delay	integer	optional	1	[0,...]	Number of seconds the process execution should be delayed if the execution fails
include_req_body	boolean	optional	false		Whether to include the request body

examples of meta_format

• default:

  {"upstream":"127.0.0.1:1980","start_time":1602211788041,"client_ip":"127.0.0.1","service_id":"","route_id":"1","request":{"querystring":{"ab":"cd"},"size":90,"uri":"\/hello?ab=cd","url":"http:\/\/localhost:1984\/hello?ab=cd","headers":{"host":"localhost","content-length":"6","connection":"close"},"body":"abcdef","method":"GET"},"response":{"headers":{"content-type":"text\/plain","server":"APISIX\/1.5","connection":"close","transfer-encoding":"chunked"},"status":200,"size":153},"latency":99.000215530396}
  

• origin:

  GET /hello?ab=cd HTTP/1.1
  host: localhost
  content-length: 6
  connection: close
  
  abcdef
  

Info

The message will write to the buffer first. It will send to the kafka server when the buffer exceed the batch_max_size, or every buffer_duration flush the buffer.

In case of success, returns true. In case of errors, returns nil with a string describing the error (buffer overflow).

Sample broker list

This plugin supports to push in to more than one broker at a time. Specify the brokers of the external kafka servers as below sample to take effect of this functionality.

{
    "127.0.0.1":9092,
    "127.0.0.1":9093
}

How To Enable

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

curl http://127.0.0.1:9180/apisix/admin/routes/5 -H 'X-API-KEY: edd1c9f034335f136f87ad84b625c8f1' -X PUT -d '
{
    "plugins": {
       "kafka-logger": {
           "broker_list" :
             {
               "127.0.0.1":9092
             },
           "kafka_topic" : "test2",
           "key" : "key1",
           "batch_max_size": 1,
           "name": "kafka logger"
       }
    },
    "upstream": {
       "nodes": {
           "127.0.0.1:1980": 1
       },
       "type": "roundrobin"
    },
    "uri": "/hello"
}'

Test Plugin

*success:

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

Disable Plugin

Remove the corresponding json configuration in the plugin configuration to disable the kafka-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='
{
    "methods": ["GET"],
    "uri": "/hello",
    "plugins": {},
    "upstream": {
        "type": "roundrobin",
        "nodes": {
            "127.0.0.1:1980": 1
        }
    }
}'