Spring Boot enable http requests logging (access logs)

Question

How to enable access logs in an embedded tomcat server provided by spring boot? I've tried this in application.properties but it doesn't create file, neither logs to console.

server.tomcat.access-log-enabled=true server.tomcat.access-log-pattern=%a asdasd logging.file=/home/mati/mylog.log 

Answer 1

Here it goes a way to have them displayed in console or whatever file you choose. Declare Tomcat's RequestDumperFilter in any @Configuration class:

@Bean public FilterRegistrationBean requestDumperFilter() {     FilterRegistrationBean registration = new FilterRegistrationBean();     Filter requestDumperFilter = new RequestDumperFilter();     registration.setFilter(requestDumperFilter);     registration.addUrlPatterns("/*");     return registration; } 

And that's the output:

http-nio-8765-exec-1 START TIME        =30-may-2016 12:45:41 http-nio-8765-exec-1         requestURI=/info http-nio-8765-exec-1           authType=null http-nio-8765-exec-1  characterEncoding=UTF-8 http-nio-8765-exec-1      contentLength=-1 http-nio-8765-exec-1        contentType=null http-nio-8765-exec-1        contextPath= http-nio-8765-exec-1             cookie=JSESSIONID=E7259F5F9ED6B04CBE5A294C5F8CA5C6 http-nio-8765-exec-1             header=host=mies-057:8765 http-nio-8765-exec-1             header=connection=keep-alive http-nio-8765-exec-1             header=accept=text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8 http-nio-8765-exec-1             header=upgrade-insecure-requests=1 http-nio-8765-exec-1             header=user-agent=Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/50.0.2661.102 Safari/537.36 http-nio-8765-exec-1             header=referer=http://mies-057:1111/ http-nio-8765-exec-1             header=accept-encoding=gzip, deflate, sdch http-nio-8765-exec-1             header=accept-language=es-ES,es;q=0.8 http-nio-8765-exec-1             header=cookie=JSESSIONID=E7259F5F9ED6B04CBE5A294C5F8CA5C6 http-nio-8765-exec-1             locale=es_ES http-nio-8765-exec-1             method=GET http-nio-8765-exec-1           pathInfo=null http-nio-8765-exec-1           protocol=HTTP/1.1 http-nio-8765-exec-1        queryString=null http-nio-8765-exec-1         remoteAddr=192.168.56.1 http-nio-8765-exec-1         remoteHost=192.168.56.1 http-nio-8765-exec-1         remoteUser=null http-nio-8765-exec-1 requestedSessionId=E7259F5F9ED6B04CBE5A294C5F8CA5C6 http-nio-8765-exec-1             scheme=http http-nio-8765-exec-1         serverName=mies-057 http-nio-8765-exec-1         serverPort=8765 http-nio-8765-exec-1        servletPath=/info http-nio-8765-exec-1           isSecure=false http-nio-8765-exec-1 ------------------=-------------------------------------------- http-nio-8765-exec-1 ------------------=-------------------------------------------- http-nio-8765-exec-1           authType=null http-nio-8765-exec-1        contentType=application/json;charset=UTF-8 http-nio-8765-exec-1             header=Strict-Transport-Security=max-age=31536000 ; includeSubDomains http-nio-8765-exec-1             header=X-Application-Context=EDGE:8765 http-nio-8765-exec-1             header=Content-Type=application/json;charset=UTF-8 http-nio-8765-exec-1             header=Transfer-Encoding=chunked http-nio-8765-exec-1             header=Date=Mon, 30 May 2016 10:45:41 GMT http-nio-8765-exec-1             status=200 http-nio-8765-exec-1 END TIME          =30-may-2016 12:45:41 http-nio-8765-exec-1 =============================================================== 

Then manage it as any standard Spring Boot log.