Users: Log unauthorized requests #63
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| Seems like a good idea to me. |
| Can we log to a file? We might also log successful queries, with usernames? |
| I think logging to a file is a bit out of scope of this pr, usually there's always a way to pipe the output somewhere. If people want it I can also implement logging on success |
| We should not mix the two streams together (application / access logs). it is separate things. |
| prometheus also uses json for logging the queries. |
This patch adds new configuration options to the web.config.file which makes it possible to enable logging of http requests. The "request_log_config" struct takes two arguments, a "file" which gets written to on request and "header_for_ip" which optionally allows a user to override how the ip gets retrieved. A log entry is formatted as json and currently contains the ip of the request, if authentication was successful, the url path and a timestamp Signed-off-by: networkException <git@nwex.de>
networkException force-pushed the master branch from 38570d2 to a634551 Compare | I have rewritten the implementation to output to a json file |
| I would prefer to avoid multiple log streams. The fact that Prometheus logs queries to a separate file is an anti-pattern for operations. We separate logging types in our tools like ELK and Loki. |
| For my usecase it doesn't matter, I'd just like to have some way of outputting failed requests. I'm not able to decide what design would be best for the project but I'll happily implement a different one if that gets agreed on. |
| @networkException Yea, let me have a discussion with @roidelapluie about this policy. I really want to avoid a proliferation of log files in the Prometheus ecosystem. It makes dealing with deployments a lot more work. |
| You can put /dev/stdout if you don't want a log file |
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This patch adds a new configuration option to the web.config.file which
makes it possible to enable logging of unauthorized requests.
If "log_unauthorized" at config file's top level is set to true,
any unauthorized request will have the ip as well as the X-Forwarded-For
header logged. This way, a program that might parse the logs can determent
for itself if the X-Forwarded-For header can be trusted.