title: google-cloud-logging

Summary

Name

google-cloud-logging plugin is used to send the access log of Apache APISIX to the Google Cloud Logging Service.

This plugin provides the ability to push log data as a batch to Google Cloud logging Service.

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

Attributes

NameRequirementDefaultDescription
auth_configSemi-optionalone of auth_config or auth_file must be configured
auth_config.private_keyrequiredthe private key parameters of the Google service account
auth_config.project_idrequiredthe project id parameters of the Google service account
auth_config.token_urioptionalhttps://oauth2.googleapis.com/tokenthe token uri parameters of the Google service account
auth_config.entries_urioptionalhttps://logging.googleapis.com/v2/entries:writegoogle cloud logging service API
auth_config.scopesoptional[“https://www.googleapis.com/auth/logging.read”,“https://www.googleapis.com/auth/logging.write”,“https://www.googleapis.com/auth/logging.admin”,“https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform”]the access scopes parameters of the Google service account, refer to: OAuth 2.0 Scopes for Google APIs
auth_filesemi-optionalpath to the google service account json file(Semi-optional, one of auth_config or auth_file must be configured)
ssl_verifyoptionaltrueenable SSL verification, option as per OpenResty docs
resourceoptional{“type”: “global”}the Google monitor resource, refer to: MonitoredResource
log_idoptionalapisix.apache.org%2Flogsgoogle cloud logging id, refer to: LogEntry
max_retry_countoptional0max number of retries before removing from the processing pipe line
retry_delayoptional1number of seconds the process execution should be delayed if the execution fails
buffer_durationoptional60max age in seconds of the oldest entry in a batch before the batch must be processed
inactive_timeoutoptional5max age in seconds when the buffer will be flushed if inactive
batch_max_sizeoptional1000max size of each batch

How To Enable

The following is an example of how to enable the google-cloud-logging for a specific route.

Full configuration

curl http://127.0.0.1:9080/apisix/admin/routes/1 -H 'X-API-KEY: edd1c9f034335f136f87ad84b625c8f1' -X PUT -d '
{
    "plugins": {
        "google-cloud-logging": {
            "auth_config":{
                "project_id":"apisix",
                "private_key":"-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----your private key-----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----",
                "token_uri":"https://oauth2.googleapis.com/token",
                "scopes":[
                    "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/logging.admin"
                ],
                "entries_uri":"https://logging.googleapis.com/v2/entries:write"
            },
            "resource":{
                "type":"global"
            },
            "log_id":"apisix.apache.org%2Flogs",
            "inactive_timeout":10,
            "max_retry_count":0,
            "buffer_duration":60,
            "retry_delay":1,
            "batch_max_size":1
        }
    },
    "upstream": {
        "type": "roundrobin",
        "nodes": {
            "127.0.0.1:1980": 1
        }
    },
    "uri": "/hello"
}'

Minimize configuration

curl http://127.0.0.1:9080/apisix/admin/routes/1 -H 'X-API-KEY: edd1c9f034335f136f87ad84b625c8f1' -X PUT -d '
{
    "plugins": {
        "google-cloud-logging": {
            "auth_config":{
                "project_id":"apisix",
                "private_key":"-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----your private key-----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----"
            }
        }
    },
    "upstream": {
        "type": "roundrobin",
        "nodes": {
            "127.0.0.1:1980": 1
        }
    },
    "uri": "/hello"
}'

Test Plugin

  • Send request to route configured with the google-cloud-logging plugin
$ curl -i http://127.0.0.1:9080/hello
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
...
hello, world
  • Login to Google Cloud to view logging service

Google Cloud Logging Service

Disable Plugin

Disabling the google-cloud-logging plugin is very simple, just remove the JSON configuration corresponding to google-cloud-logging.

$ curl http://127.0.0.1:9080/apisix/admin/routes/1 -H 'X-API-KEY: edd1c9f034335f136f87ad84b625c8f1' -X PUT -d '
{
    "uri": "/hello",
    "plugins": {},
    "upstream": {
        "type": "roundrobin",
        "nodes": {
            "127.0.0.1:1980": 1
        }
    }
}'