Name

lua-resty-logger-socket - nonblocking remote access logging for Nginx

Table of Contents

• Name
• Status
• Description
• Synopsis
• Methods
  • init
  • initted
  • log
  • flush
• Installation
• TODO
• Authors
• Copyright and License

Status

This library is still experimental and under early development.

Description

This lua library is a remote logging module for ngx_lua:

http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpLuaModule

This is aimed to replace Nginx's standard ngx_http_log_module to push access logs to a remote server via an nonblocking socket. A common remote log server supporting sockets is syslog-ng.

This Lua library takes advantage of ngx_lua's cosocket API, which ensures 100% nonblocking behavior.

Synopsis

    lua_package_path "/path/to/lua-resty-logger-socket/lib/?.lua;;";

    server {
        location / {
            log_by_lua '
                local logger = require "resty.logger.socket"
                if not logger.initted() then
                    local ok, err = logger.init{
                        host = 'xxx',
                        port = 1234,
                        flush_limit = 1234,
                        drop_limit = 5678,
                    }
                    if not ok then
                        ngx.log(ngx.ERR, "failed to initialize the logger: ",
                                err)
                        return
                    end
                end

                -- construct the custom access log message in
                -- the Lua variable "msg"

                local bytes, err = logger.log(msg)
                if err then
                    ngx.log(ngx.ERR, "failed to log message: ", err)
                    return
                end
            ';
        }
    }

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Methods

This logger module is designed to be shared inside an Nginx worker process by all the requests. So currently only one remote log server is supported. We may support multiple log server sharding in the future.

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init

syntax: ok, err = logger.init(user_config)

Initialize logger with user configurations. This logger must be initted before use. If you do not initialize the logger, you will get an error.

Available user configurations are listed as follows:

• flush_limit

  If the buffered messages' size plus the current message size reaches (>=) this limit (in bytes), the buffered log messages will be written to log server. Default to 4096 (4KB).

• drop_limit

  If the buffered messages' size plus the current message size is larger than this limit (in bytes), the current log message will be dropped because of limited buffer size. Default drop_limit is 1048576 (1MB).

• timeout

  Sets the timeout (in ms) protection for subsequent operations, including the connect method. Default value is 1000 (1 sec).

• host

  log server host.

• port

  log server port number.

• sock_type

  IP protocol type to use for transport layer. Can be either "tcp" or "udp". Default is "tcp".

• path

  If the log server uses a stream-typed unix domain socket, path is the socket file path. Note that host/port and path cannot both be empty. At least one must be supplied.

• max_retry_times

  Max number of retry times after a connect to a log server failed or send log messages to a log server failed.

• retry_interval

  The time delay (in ms) before retry to connect to a log server or retry to send log messages to a log server, default to 100 (0.1s).

• pool_size

  Keepalive pool size used by sock:keepalive. Default to 10.

• max_buffer_reuse

  Max number of reuse times of internal logging buffer before creating a new one (to prevent memory leak).

• periodic_flush

  Periodic flush interval (in seconds). Set to nil to turn off this feature.

• ssl

  Boolean, enable or disable connecting via SSL. Default to false.

• ssl_verify

  Boolean, enable or disable verifying host and certificate match. Default to true.

• sni_host

  Set the hostname to send in SNI and to use when verifying certificate match.

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initted

syntax: initted = logger.initted()

Get a boolean value indicating whether this module has been initted (by calling the init method).

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log

syntax: bytes, err = logger.log(msg)

Log a message. By default, the log message will be buffered in the logger module until flush_limit is reached in which case the logger will flush all the buffered messages to remote log server via a socket. bytes is the number of bytes that successfully buffered in the logger. If bytes is nil, err is a string describing what kind of error happens this time. If bytes is not nil, then err is a previous error message. err can be nil when bytes is not nil.

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flush

syntax: bytes, err = logger.flush()

Flushes any buffered messages out to remote immediately. Usually you do not need to call this manually because flushing happens automatically when the buffer is full.

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Installation

You need to compile at least ngx_lua 0.9.0 with your Nginx.

You need to configure the lua_package_path directive to add the path of your lua-resty-logger-socket source tree to ngx_lua's Lua module search path, as in

# nginx.conf
http {
    lua_package_path "/path/to/lua-resty-logger-socket/lib/?.lua;;";
    ...
}

and then load the library in Lua:

local logger = require "resty.logger.socket"

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TODO

• Multiple log server sharding and/or failover support.
• "match_similar" utf8 support test.

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Authors

Jiale Zhi [email protected], CloudFlare Inc.

Yichun Zhang (agentzh) [email protected], CloudFlare Inc.

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Copyright and License

This module is licensed under the BSD license.

Copyright (C) 2013, by Jiale Zhi [email protected], CloudFlare Inc.

Copyright (C) 2013, by Yichun Zhang [email protected], CloudFlare Inc.

All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

• Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.

• Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

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