Building RESTful Web services with Go

API logging in Kong

Many plugins are available in Kong to log requests to multiple targets. A target is a system that collects the log and persists it somewhere. These are the important plugins available for logging:

• File log
• Syslog
• HTTP log

The first one is file logging. If we need the Kong server to store the request and response logs in the form of JSON to a file, use this plugin. We should call on Kong's admin REST API (http://localhost:8001/apis/myapi/plugins) to do that:

Hit the Send button and the gateway returns the response, like this:

{  "created_at": 1509202704000,  "config": {    "path": "/tmp/file.log",    "reopen": false  }, "id": "57954bdd-ee11-4f00-a7aa-1a48f672d36d", ...