Log Files

Log files for API Umbrella are stored in /var/log/api-umbrella/. Inside that directory you'll find subdirectories for each process API Umbrella runs. Some of the more relevant log files are highlighted below:

• /var/log/api-umbrella/nginx/access.log: nginx access for all requests log
• /var/log/api-umbrella/nginx/current: nginx error log
• /var/log/api-umbrella/web-puma/current: Log file for the Rails web app (providing the admin and APIs)
• /var/log/api-umbrella/trafficserver/access.blog: Binary log file for the Traffic Server cache server (use /opt/api-umbrella/embedded/bin/traffic_logcat to view)

Request logs

3 components of API Umbrella provide a request log: - trafficserver - nginx - rsyslog

In most production systems, not all of them are required. By default, they are enabled. The following configuration deactivate the request logs:

rsyslog

rsyslog:
  disable_request_logging: true

trafficserver

Trafficserver provides a preconfigured log-format extended_custom. They are defined at the logging.yaml. To disable the request logging, no format should be set.

trafficserver:
      log_format:

nginx

Nginx also provides a preconfigured log-format. Its defined at the router.conf. To disable the request logging, set the access_log_filename configuration should be set to empty.

nginx:
    access_log_filename: