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Where does logging happen in the plugin priority

I apologize for not testing this before asking the question, but was hoping I can get a quick answer as I'm evaluating multiple API gateway options.

If I add Authentication, ACL, Rate limiting, Logging, when will I not receive request and response logs?

Should authentiation fail, will the logging still happen, or does it need to pass all the steps, and get a response back from the service before it gets logged?

Solution

  • Logging will happen for all the conditions. You can setup different logging plugins from the available list of the plugins. Here

    For example you can setup http-log and set the http_endpoint where you will receive all your logs. You can consume input in JSON on that endpoint to evaluate and process it further.

    I am sending all my logs to elastic search and using kibana to visualize the log content. ( I am using http-log)