kong-http-log-server

HTTP log server for Kong http-log plugin for Elasticsearch and more

Why this project was born?

In some cases of running kong, we have logging server running but firewall or other policy of infrastructure didn’t allow kong connect to log server via TCP/UDP or Syslog, then kong-http-log-server was born

Before start

Edit .env file

HOST=0.0.0.0
PORT=8080
ES_HOST=elasticsearch
ES_PORT=9200
INDEX_PATTERN=kong-2006-01-02

NOTE :

• HOST and PORT for http-es-log-server binding
• ES_HOST and ES_PORT for Elasticsearch Server
• INDEX_PATTERN use Golang date format

Ref: https://gobyexample.com/time-formatting-parsing

Start 'em all

docker-compose up -d kong-database
docker-compose up migrations
docker-compose up -d kong elasticsearch kibana kong-http-log-server 

Create sevice and route

curl http://127.0.0.1:8001/services -d name=httpbin -d url=http://httpbin.org
curl http://127.0.0.1:8001/services/httpbin/routes -d name=httpbin -d paths[]=/

Add http-log plugin

curl http://127.0.0.1:8001/services/httpbin/plugins \
	-d name=http-log \
	-d config.http_endpoint=http://kong-http-log-server:8080/

Kibana

http://127.0.0.1:5601

Start kong-http-log-server without docker

go run .
# or
go build .
./kong-http-log-server

TODO

• Add basic auth support via .env for kong-http-log-server
• Add loki support
• Add graylog support
• Add auth support for log backend
• Add more protocol support for log backend
  • Syslog
  • TCP
  • UDP