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title: request-id

Summary

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

Name

request-id plugin adds a unique ID (UUID) to each request proxied through APISIX. This plugin can be used to track an API request. The plugin will not add a request id if the header_name is already present in the request.

Attributes

Name	Type	Requirement	Default	Valid	Description
header_name	string	optional	“X-Request-Id”		Request ID header name
include_in_response	boolean	optional	true		Option to include the unique request ID in the response header

How To Enable

Create a route and enable the request-id plugin on the route:

curl http://127.0.0.1:9080/apisix/admin/routes/5 -H 'X-API-KEY: edd1c9f034335f136f87ad84b625c8f1' -X PUT -d '
{
    "uri": "/hello",
    "plugins": {
        "request-id": {
            "include_in_response": true
        }
    },
    "upstream": {
        "type": "roundrobin",
        "nodes": {
            "127.0.0.1:8080": 1
        }
    }
}'

Test Plugin

$ curl -i http://127.0.0.1:9080/hello
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
X-Request-Id: fe32076a-d0a5-49a6-a361-6c244c1df956
......

Disable Plugin

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

curl http://127.0.0.1:9080/apisix/admin/routes/5 -H 'X-API-KEY: edd1c9f034335f136f87ad84b625c8f1' -X PUT -d '
{
    "uri": "/get",
    "plugins": {
    },
    "upstream": {
        "type": "roundrobin",
        "nodes": {
            "127.0.0.1:8080": 1
        }
    }
}'