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View on GitHub[Feature Request] Support environment variables in log formatting
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#12,767 opened on Aug 21, 2020
area/access_logenhancementhelp wanted
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Description
Adding a request to support environment variables in our log formatting, perhaps using the ENV key (similar to REQ, RESP, etc). HOSTNAME is an already supported keyword pulled from the environment--this feature would expand on that.
Some values are known ahead of time and can be baked into the log format. However, the use case would be for logging runtime values (host IP, AZ, etc) that are only known when the container is deployed. Our current solution is to parse the config file, injecting selected envvars, etc before booting the service.
access_log:
- name: envoy.access_loggers.file
config:
path: /dev/stdout
json_format:
hostname: "%HOSTNAME%"
method: "%REQ(:METHOD)%"
app_version: "%ENV(APP_VERSION)%"
private_ip: "%ENV(PRIVATE_IP)%"
region: "%ENV(REGION)%"
export APP_VERSION=0.1.0
export PRIVATE_IP=192.168.1.5
export REGION=us-east-1
envoy -c envoy.yaml
#=> {
"hostname":"macbook-pro",
"method":"GET",
"app_version": "0.1.0",
"private_ip": "192.168.1.5",
"region": "us-east-1"
}