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title: http-logger

Summary

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

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

Name	Type	Requirement	Default	Valid	Description
uri	string	required			The URI of the HTTP/HTTPS server.
auth_header	string	optional	""		Any authorization headers.
timeout	integer	optional	3	[1,...]	Time to keep the connection alive after sending a request.
name	string	optional	“http logger”		A unique identifier to identity the logger.
batch_max_size	integer	optional	1000	[1,...]	Set the maximum number of logs sent in each batch. When the number of logs reaches the set maximum, all logs will be automatically pushed to the HTTP/HTTPS service.
inactive_timeout	integer	optional	5	[1,...]	The maximum time to refresh the buffer (in seconds). When the maximum refresh time is reached, all logs will be automatically pushed to the HTTP/HTTPS service regardless of whether the number of logs in the buffer reaches the maximum number set.
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	[false, true]	Whether to include the request body. false: indicates that the requested body is not included; true: indicates that the requested body is included. Note: if the request body is too big to be kept in the memory, it can‘t be logged due to Nginx’s limitation.
include_resp_body	boolean	optional	false	[false, true]	Whether to include the response body. The response body is included if and only if it is true.
include_resp_body_expr	array	optional			When include_resp_body is true, control the behavior based on the result of the lua-resty-expr expression. If present, only log the response body when the result is true.
concat_method	string	optional	“json”	[“json”, “new_line”]	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 of how to enable the http-logger for a specific route. You could generate a mock HTTP server at mockbin to view the logs.

curl http://127.0.0.1:9080/apisix/admin/routes/1 -H 'X-API-KEY: edd1c9f034335f136f87ad84b625c8f1' -X PUT -d '
{
      "plugins": {
            "http-logger": {
                "uri": "http://mockbin.org/bin/:ID"
            }
       },
      "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

Name	Type	Requirement	Default	Valid	Description
log_format	object	optional	{“host”: “$host”, “@timestamp”: “$time_iso8601”, “client_ip”: “$remote_addr”}		Log format declared as key value pair in JSON format. Only string is supported in the value part. If the value starts with $, it means to get APISIX variable or 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://127.0.0.1:9080/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://127.0.0.1:9080/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
        }
    }
}'