access logging

[rutchkiwi]

Hi!

First off, thank you for making this, it's a really cool project!

My question is quite simple, does fabio support access logging? nginx for instance can print all requests passing through and their responses to stdout or a file. Would be quite useful to me, since I'd then would not need to implement this in all downstream services.

[magiconair]

Not yet but certainly doable. Just log to local disk?

[rutchkiwi]

thx for the quick reply!
In my case I'd like to log to stdout, since I'm running the docker image and all my other containers send their logs off to a log aggregation service using a docker log driver.

[magiconair]

so access log to stdout, normal log to stderr?

[rutchkiwi]

That would be perfect for me

[magiconair]

Any preference on the format?

[rutchkiwi]

No strong preference really, but json would be easy to parse. The data I capture in other places would be

• the http method/hostname/path
• the response time & status
• which (upstream) server it got routed to
• the local time
• the user agent

Of course for a first version it would be really nice just having the first two! Let me know if there is anything I could do to help with this. :)

[osigida]

I guess, the format should be configurable, say we'd like to have some headers as well.

Here is implementation from logback, might be useful: http://logback.qos.ch/access.html

[sfleiter]

What is still missing to be able to merge this?
Looking forward to the feature.