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Apache APISIX
API Gateway
Plugin
Syslog
This document contains information about the Apache APISIX syslog Plugin.

Description

The syslog Plugin is used to push logs to a Syslog server.

Logs can be set as JSON objects.

Attributes

Name Type Required Default Valid values Description
host string True IP address or the hostname of the Syslog server.
port integer True Target port of the Syslog server.
name string False "sys logger" Identifier for the server. If you use Prometheus to monitor APISIX metrics, the name is exported in apisix_batch_process_entries.
timeout integer False 3000 [1, ...] Timeout in ms for the upstream to send data.
tls boolean False false When set to true performs TLS verification.
flush_limit integer False 4096 [1, ...] Maximum size of the buffer (KB) and the current message before it is flushed and written to the server.
drop_limit integer False 1048576 Maximum size of the buffer (KB) and the current message before the current message is dropped because of the size limit.
sock_type string False "tcp" ["tcp", "udp] Transport layer protocol to use.
pool_size integer False 5 [5, ...] Keep-alive pool size used by sock:keepalive.
log_format object False Log format declared as key value pairs in JSON format. Values only support strings. APISIX or Nginx variables can be used by prefixing the string with $.
include_req_body boolean False false [false, true] When set to true includes the request body in the log.
include_req_body_expr array False Filter for when the include_req_body attribute is set to true. Request body is only logged when the expression set here evaluates to true. See lua-resty-expr for more.
include_resp_body boolean False false [false, true] When set to true includes the response body in the log.
include_resp_body_expr array False When the include_resp_body attribute is set to true, use this to filter based on lua-resty-expr. If present, only logs the response if the expression evaluates to true.

This Plugin supports using batch processors to aggregate and process entries (logs/data) in a batch. This avoids the need for frequently submitting the data. The batch processor submits data every 5 seconds or when the data in the queue reaches 1000. See Batch Processor for more information or setting your custom configuration.

meta_format example

"<46>1 2024-01-06T02:30:59.145Z 127.0.0.1 apisix 82324 - - {\"response\":{\"status\":200,\"size\":141,\"headers\":{\"content-type\":\"text/plain\",\"server\":\"APISIX/3.7.0\",\"transfer-encoding\":\"chunked\",\"connection\":\"close\"}},\"route_id\":\"1\",\"server\":{\"hostname\":\"baiyundeMacBook-Pro.local\",\"version\":\"3.7.0\"},\"request\":{\"uri\":\"/opentracing\",\"url\":\"http://127.0.0.1:1984/opentracing\",\"querystring\":{},\"method\":\"GET\",\"size\":155,\"headers\":{\"content-type\":\"application/x-www-form-urlencoded\",\"host\":\"127.0.0.1:1984\",\"user-agent\":\"lua-resty-http/0.16.1 (Lua) ngx_lua/10025\"}},\"upstream\":\"127.0.0.1:1982\",\"apisix_latency\":100.99999809265,\"service_id\":\"\",\"upstream_latency\":1,\"start_time\":1704508259044,\"client_ip\":\"127.0.0.1\",\"latency\":101.99999809265}\n"

Metadata

You can also set the format of the logs by configuring the Plugin metadata. The following configurations are available:

Name Type Required Default Description
log_format object False Log format declared as key value pairs in JSON format. Values only support strings. APISIX or Nginx variables can be used by prefixing the string with $.

:::info IMPORTANT

Configuring the Plugin metadata is global in scope. This means that it will take effect on all Routes and Services which use the syslog Plugin.

:::

The example below shows how you can configure through the Admin API:

:::note You can fetch the admin_key from config.yaml and save to an environment variable with the following command:

admin_key=$(yq '.deployment.admin.admin_key[0].key' conf/config.yaml | sed 's/"//g')

:::

curl http://127.0.0.1:9180/apisix/admin/plugin_metadata/syslog -H "X-API-KEY: $admin_key" -X PUT -d '
{
    "log_format": {
        "host": "$host",
        "@timestamp": "$time_iso8601",
        "client_ip": "$remote_addr"
    }
}'

With this configuration, your logs would be formatted as shown below:

{"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"}

Enable Plugin

The example below shows how you can enable the Plugin for a specific Route:

curl http://127.0.0.1:9180/apisix/admin/routes/1 -H "X-API-KEY: $admin_key" -X PUT -d '
{
    "plugins": {
        "syslog": {
                "host" : "127.0.0.1",
                "port" : 5044,
                "flush_limit" : 1
            }
    },
    "upstream": {
        "type": "roundrobin",
        "nodes": {
            "127.0.0.1:1980": 1
        }
    },
    "uri": "/hello"
}'

Example usage

Now, if you make a request to APISIX, it will be logged in your Syslog server:

curl -i http://127.0.0.1:9080/hello

Delete Plugin

To remove the syslog Plugin, you can delete the corresponding JSON configuration from the Plugin configuration. APISIX will automatically reload and you do not have to restart for this to take effect.

curl http://127.0.0.1:9180/apisix/admin/routes/1  -H "X-API-KEY: $admin_key" -X PUT -d '
{
    "methods": ["GET"],
    "uri": "/hello",
    "plugins": {},
    "upstream": {
        "type": "roundrobin",
        "nodes": {
            "127.0.0.1:1980": 1
        }
    }
}'