Logging POST data from $request_body

Question

I have my config setup to handle a bunch of GET requests which render pixels that work fine to handle analytics and parse query strings for logging. With an additional third

Answer 1

The solution below was the best format I found.

log_format postdata escape=json '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] '
                       '"$request" $status $bytes_sent '
                       '"$http_referer" "$http_user_agent" "$request_body"';
server {
        listen 80;

        server_name api.some.com;

        location / {
         access_log  /var/log/nginx/postdata.log  postdata;
         proxy_pass      http://127.0.0.1:8080;
        }

}

For this input

curl -d '{"key1":"value1", "key2":"value2"}' -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST http://api.deprod.com/postEndpoint

Generate that great result

201.23.89.149 -  [22/Aug/2019:15:58:40 +0000] "POST /postEndpoint HTTP/1.1" 200 265 "" "curl/7.64.0" "{\"key1\":\"value1\", \"key2\":\"value2\"}"