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",
  "name": "file-log",
  "api_id": "795409ae-89ae-4810-8520-15418b96161f",
  "enabled": true
}

It basically tells Kong that, for the given API called myapi, log every request to a file called /tmp/file.log. Now, make one more request for the health check (http://localhost:8000/api/v1/healthcheck) to the API gateway...