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Version: 3.8

elasticsearch-logger

Description#

The elasticsearch-logger Plugin is used to forward logs to Elasticsearch for analysis and storage.

When the Plugin is enabled, APISIX will serialize the request context information to Elasticsearch Bulk format and submit it to the batch queue. When the maximum batch size is exceeded, the data in the queue is pushed to Elasticsearch. See batch processor for more details.

Attributes#

NameTypeRequiredDefaultDescription
endpoint_addrstringDeprecatedDeprecated. Use endpoint_addrs instead. Elasticsearch API.
endpoint_addrsarrayTrueElasticsearch API. If multiple endpoints are configured, they will be written randomly.
fieldarrayTrueElasticsearch field configuration.
field.indexstringTrueElasticsearch _index field.
field.typestringFalseElasticsearch default valueElasticsearch _type field.
log_formatobjectFalseLog 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 $.
autharrayFalseElasticsearch authentication configuration.
auth.usernamestringTrueElasticsearch authentication username.
auth.passwordstringTrueElasticsearch authentication password.
ssl_verifybooleanFalsetrueWhen set to true enables SSL verification as per OpenResty docs.
timeoutintegerFalse10Elasticsearch send data timeout in seconds.

NOTE: encrypt_fields = {"auth.password"} is also defined in the schema, which means that the field will be stored encrypted in etcd. See encrypted storage fields.

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.

Enable Plugin#

Full configuration#

The example below shows a complete configuration of the Plugin on a specific Route:

curl http://127.0.0.1:9180/apisix/admin/routes/1 \
-H 'X-API-KEY: edd1c9f034335f136f87ad84b625c8f1' -X PUT -d '
{
"plugins":{
"elasticsearch-logger":{
"endpoint_addr":"http://127.0.0.1:9200",
"field":{
"index":"services",
"type":"collector"
},
"auth":{
"username":"elastic",
"password":"123456"
},
"ssl_verify":false,
"timeout": 60,
"retry_delay":1,
"buffer_duration":60,
"max_retry_count":0,
"batch_max_size":1000,
"inactive_timeout":5,
"name":"elasticsearch-logger"
}
},
"upstream":{
"type":"roundrobin",
"nodes":{
"127.0.0.1:1980":1
}
},
"uri":"/elasticsearch.do"
}'

Minimal configuration example#

The example below shows a bare minimum configuration of the Plugin on a Route:

curl http://127.0.0.1:9180/apisix/admin/routes/1 \
-H 'X-API-KEY: edd1c9f034335f136f87ad84b625c8f1' -X PUT -d '
{
"plugins":{
"elasticsearch-logger":{
"endpoint_addr":"http://127.0.0.1:9200",
"field":{
"index":"services"
}
}
},
"upstream":{
"type":"roundrobin",
"nodes":{
"127.0.0.1:1980":1
}
},
"uri":"/elasticsearch.do"
}'

Example usage#

Once you have configured the Route to use the Plugin, when you make a request to APISIX, it will be logged in your Elasticsearch server:

curl -i http://127.0.0.1:9080/elasticsearch.do\?q\=hello
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
...
hello, world

You should be able to get the log from elasticsearch:

curl -X GET "http://127.0.0.1:9200/services/_search" | jq .
{
"took": 0,
...
"hits": [
{
"_index": "services",
"_type": "_doc",
"_id": "M1qAxYIBRmRqWkmH4Wya",
"_score": 1,
"_source": {
"apisix_latency": 0,
"route_id": "1",
"server": {
"version": "2.15.0",
"hostname": "apisix"
},
"request": {
"size": 102,
"uri": "/elasticsearch.do?q=hello",
"querystring": {
"q": "hello"
},
"headers": {
"user-agent": "curl/7.29.0",
"host": "127.0.0.1:9080",
"accept": "*/*"
},
"url": "http://127.0.0.1:9080/elasticsearch.do?q=hello",
"method": "GET"
},
"service_id": "",
"latency": 0,
"upstream": "127.0.0.1:1980",
"upstream_latency": 1,
"client_ip": "127.0.0.1",
"start_time": 1661170929107,
"response": {
"size": 192,
"headers": {
"date": "Mon, 22 Aug 2022 12:22:09 GMT",
"server": "APISIX/2.15.0",
"content-type": "text/plain; charset=utf-8",
"connection": "close",
"transfer-encoding": "chunked"
},
"status": 200
}
}
}
]
}
}

Metadata#

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

NameTypeRequiredDefaultDescription
log_formatobjectFalseLog 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 elasticsearch-logger Plugin.

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

curl http://127.0.0.1:9180/apisix/admin/plugin_metadata/elasticsearch-logger \
-H 'X-API-KEY: edd1c9f034335f136f87ad84b625c8f1' -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"}

make a request to APISIX again:

curl -i http://127.0.0.1:9080/elasticsearch.do\?q\=hello
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
...
hello, world

You should be able to get this log from elasticsearch:

curl -X GET "http://127.0.0.1:9200/services/_search" | jq .
{
"took": 0,
...
"hits": {
"total": {
"value": 1,
"relation": "eq"
},
"max_score": 1,
"hits": [
{
"_index": "services",
"_type": "_doc",
"_id": "NVqExYIBRmRqWkmH4WwG",
"_score": 1,
"_source": {
"@timestamp": "2022-08-22T20:26:31+08:00",
"client_ip": "127.0.0.1",
"host": "127.0.0.1",
"route_id": "1"
}
}
]
}
}

Disable Metadata#

curl http://127.0.0.1:9180/apisix/admin/plugin_metadata/elasticsearch-logger \
-H 'X-API-KEY: edd1c9f034335f136f87ad84b625c8f1' -X DELETE

Delete Plugin#

To remove the elasticsearch-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: edd1c9f034335f136f87ad84b625c8f1' -X PUT -d '
{
"plugins":{},
"upstream":{
"type":"roundrobin",
"nodes":{
"127.0.0.1:1980":1
}
},
"uri":"/elasticsearch.do"
}'