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- [中文](../zh-cn/plugins/http-logger.md)

# Summary

- [**Name**](#name)
- [**Attributes**](#attributes)
- [**How To Enable**](#how-to-enable)
- [**Test Plugin**](#test-plugin)
- [**Metadata**](#metadata)
- [**Disable Plugin**](#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    |               |         | URI of the 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,...] | 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                                                      |
| concat_method    | string  | optional    | "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.

```shell
curl http://127.0.0.1:9080/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:

```shell
$ 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    |               |         | Log format declared as JSON object. Only string is supported in the `value` part. If the value starts with `$`, the value is [Nginx variable](http://nginx.org/en/docs/varindex.html). |

 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

```shell
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:

```shell
{"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.

```shell
$ 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
        }
    }
}'
```