Version: Next

skywalking-logger

Description#

The skywalking-logger Plugin can be used to push access log data to SkyWalking OAP server of HTTP.

If there is an existing tracing context, it sets up the trace-log correlation automatically and relies on SkyWalking Cross Process Propagation Headers Protocol. This provides the ability to send access logs as JSON objects to the SkyWalking OAP server.

Attributes#

Name	Type	Required	Default	Valid values	Description
endpoint_addr	string	True			URI of the SkyWalking OAP server.
service_name	string	False	"APISIX"		Service name for the SkyWalking reporter.
service_instance_name	string	False	"APISIX Instance Name"		Service instance name for the SkyWalking reporter. Set it to `$hostname` to directly get the local hostname.
log_format	object	False			Log format declared as key value pairs in JSON format. Values only support strings. APISIX or Nginx variables can be used by prefixing the string with `$`.
timeout	integer	False	3	[1,...]	Time to keep the connection alive for after sending a request.
name	string	False	"skywalking logger"		Unique identifier to identify the logger. If you use Prometheus to monitor APISIX metrics, the name is exported in `apisix_batch_process_entries`.
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.

Example of default log format#

 {
    "serviceInstance": "APISIX Instance Name",
    "body": {
      "json": {
        "json": "body-json"
      }
    },
    "endpoint": "/opentracing",
    "service": "APISIX"
  }

For body-json data, it is an escaped json string

  {
    "response": {
      "status": 200,
      "headers": {
        "server": "APISIX/3.7.0",
        "content-type": "text/plain",
        "transfer-encoding": "chunked",
        "connection": "close"
      },
      "size": 136
    },
    "route_id": "1",
    "upstream": "127.0.0.1:1982",
    "upstream_latency": 8,
    "apisix_latency": 101.00020599365,
    "client_ip": "127.0.0.1",
    "service_id": "",
    "server": {
      "hostname": "localhost",
      "version": "3.7.0"
    },
    "start_time": 1704429712768,
    "latency": 109.00020599365,
    "request": {
      "headers": {
        "content-length": "9",
        "host": "localhost",
        "connection": "close"
      },
      "method": "POST",
      "body": "body-data",
      "size": 94,
      "querystring": {},
      "url": "http://localhost:1984/opentracing",
      "uri": "/opentracing"
    }
  }

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 `$`.

IMPORTANT

Configuring the Plugin metadata is global in scope. This means that it will take effect on all Routes and Services which use the skywalking-logger 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/skywalking-logger -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#

Once you have set up your SkyWalking OAP server, you can enable the Plugin on a specific Route as shown below:

curl http://127.0.0.1:9180/apisix/admin/routes/1 -H "X-API-KEY: $admin_key" -X PUT -d '
{
      "plugins": {
            "skywalking-logger": {
                "endpoint_addr": "http://127.0.0.1:12800"
            }
       },
      "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 SkyWalking OAP server:

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

Delete Plugin#

To remove the skywalking-logger 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 '
{
    "uri": "/hello",
    "plugins": {},
    "upstream": {
        "type": "roundrobin",
        "nodes": {
            "127.0.0.1:1980": 1
        }
    }
}'