How do you view the request details including headers, host that Kong is Making?

Question

I am using kong as an API gateway.

I am struggling to debug the requests that kong is making to upstreams.

I have tried using the syslog plugin, but that only logs the request kong receives and the response it sends back to the client. I am looking to debug the request kong sends to the upstream and the response it receives.

Answer 1

If you have enabled a logging plugin, ensure you check in that location.

In my case with syslog enabled I viewed /var/log/syslog and found:

  Apr 30 12:49:34 db kong[7467]: {"latencies":{"request":3100,"kong":1148,"proxy":1952},
  "service": ...

It stores alot of information about the request and response but no body info.