Monitoring API-Level Logs¶
The advantage of having per-API log files is that it is very easy to analyze/monitor what went wrong in a particular REST API defined in WSO2 Micro Integrator by looking at the log files. The API log is an additional log file, which will contain a copy of the logs to a particular REST API.
Below are the configuration details to configure the logs of a REST API called TestAPI
using log4j
properties.
Open <MI_HOME>/conf/log4j2.properties
file using your favorite text editor to configure log4j
to log the API specific logs to a file. You can configure the logger for either INFO level logs or DEBUG level logs as follows:
Enabling log4j for an API¶
Follow the instructions below to enable log4j2 logs for a sample REST API (named TestAPI
).
- Open up the
log4j2.properties
file (stored in the<MI_HOME>/conf
) directory. -
Let's define a new appender for the
TestAPI
API by adding the following section to the end of the file (starting in a new line).Note
This configuration creates a log file named
TestAPI.log
in the folder<MI_HOME>/repository/logs
folder.# API_APPENDER is set to be a DailyRollingFileAppender using a PatternLayout. appender.API_APPENDER.type = RollingFile appender.API_APPENDER.name = API_APPENDER appender.API_APPENDER.fileName = ${sys:carbon.home}/repository/logs/TestAPI.log appender.API_APPENDER.filePattern = ${sys:carbon.home}/repository/logs/wso2-ei-api-%d{MM-dd-yyyy}.log appender.API_APPENDER.layout.type = PatternLayout appender.API_APPENDER.layout.pattern = TID: [%d] %5p {%c} [%logger] - %m%ex%n appender.API_APPENDER.policies.type = Policies appender.API_APPENDER.policies.time.type = TimeBasedTriggeringPolicy appender.API_APPENDER.policies.time.interval = 1 appender.API_APPENDER.policies.time.modulate = true appender.API_APPENDER.policies.size.type = SizeBasedTriggeringPolicy appender.API_APPENDER.policies.size.size=10MB appender.API_APPENDER.strategy.type = DefaultRolloverStrategy appender.API_APPENDER.strategy.max = 20 appender.API_APPENDER.filter.threshold.type = ThresholdFilter appender.API_APPENDER.filter.threshold.level = INFO
-
Register the appender (named
API_APPENDER
):appenders = CARBON_CONSOLE, CARBON_LOGFILE, AUDIT_LOGFILE, API_APPENDER,
-
Define a new logger to filter out
TestAPI
related logs:logger.API_LOG.name=API_LOGGER.TestAPI logger.API_LOG.level=INFO logger.API_LOG.appenderRef.API_APPENDER.ref = API_APPENDER logger.API_LOG.additivity=false
-
Register the
API_LOG
logger:loggers = AUDIT_LOG, API_LOG, SERVICE_LOGGER,
-
Save the
log4j2.properties
file.
Configuring the REST API¶
The log4j2 configurations in the log4j2.properties
file does not create logs for the REST API by default. Add a Log mediator to the REST API's in-sequence and configure it to log messages at INFO
log level.
Dynamically changing log level¶
See the instructions on updating the log level.