apisix/doc/plugins/http-logger.md

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Summary

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.

curl http://127.0.0.1:9080/apisix/admin/routes/1 -H 'X-API-KEY: edd1c9f034335f136f87ad84b625c8f1' -X PUT -d '
{
      "plugins": {
            "http-logger": {
                "uri": "127.0.0.1:80/postendpoint?param=1",
            }
       },
      "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

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://127.0.0.1:2379/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
        }
    }
}'