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

NameRequirementDescription
urirequiredURI of the server
authorizationoptionalAny authorization headers
keepaliveoptionalTime to keep the connection alive after sending a request
nameoptionalA unique identifier to identity the logger
batch_max_sizeoptionalMax size of each batch, default is 1000
inactive_timeoutoptionalmaximum age in seconds when the buffer will be flushed if inactive, default is 5s
buffer_durationoptionalMaximum age in seconds of the oldest entry in a batch before the batch must be processed, default is 5
max_retry_countoptionalMaximum number of retries before removing from the processing pipe line; default is zero
retry_delayoptionalNumber of seconds the process execution should be delayed if the execution fails; default is 1

How To Enable

The following is an example on how to enable the http-logger for a specific route.

  1. curl http://127.0.0.1:9080/apisix/admin/routes/5 -H 'X-API-KEY: edd1c9f034335f136f87ad84b625c8f1' -X PUT -d '
  2. {
  3.       "plugins": {
  4.             "http-logger": {
  5.                  "uri": "127.0.0.1:80/postendpoint?param=1",
  6.             }
  7.        },
  8.       "upstream": {
  9.            "type": "roundrobin",
  10.            "nodes": {
  11.                "127.0.0.1:1980": 1
  12.            }
  13.       },
  14.       "uri": "/hello"
  15. }'

Test Plugin

  • success:
  1. $ curl -i http://127.0.0.1:9080/hello
  2. HTTP/1.1 200 OK
  3. ...
  4. 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.

  1. $ curl http://127.0.0.1:2379/apisix/admin/routes/1  -H 'X-API-KEY: edd1c9f034335f136f87ad84b625c8f1' -X PUT -d value='
  2. {
  3.     "methods": ["GET"],
  4.     "uri": "/hello",
  5.     "plugins": {},
  6.     "upstream": {
  7.         "type": "roundrobin",
  8.         "nodes": {
  9.             "127.0.0.1:1980": 1
  10.         }
  11.     }
  12. }'