I would like to know if there any way by which we can do conditional logging in apache access logs. AccessLogValve from $CATALINA_HOME/conf/server.xml
<Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve" directory="logs"
prefix="localhost_access_log" suffix=".txt"
pattern="%{X-Forwarded-For}i %h %l %u %t "%r" %s %b" />
<Context path="" docBase="/usr/share/tomcat8/webapps/ROOT/www" reloadable="true" crossContext="true"/>
For example: I don't want to log a URL which passes sensitive information /email/somesensitve information. Is there any way I can specify this in server.xml or any other ways.
This is how we could specify in apache httpd https://www.howtoforge.com/setenvif_apache2 SetEnvIf Request_URI "^/email/token$" dontlog
The solution is to use define condition attribute in Server.xml
<Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.FastCommonAccessLogValve" directory="logs"
prefix="access_log." suffix=".txt" pattern="common" resolveHosts="false" condition="donotLog" />
Define a RequestFilter implementing Filter
public class RequestFilter implements Filter {
@Override
public void doFilter(ServletRequest request, ServletResponse response, FilterChain chain)
throws IOException, ServletException {
try {
if ( request instanceof HttpServletRequest){
HttpServletRequest httpServletRequest = (HttpServletRequest)request;
String url = getFullURL(httpServletRequest);
//initialize pattern only once
if (pattern == null){
String fPattern = filterConfig.getInitParameter("donotLogPattern");
LOGGER.info("FilterPattern {}",fPattern);
pattern = Pattern.compile(fPattern);
}
//If find a pttern then set do not log condition
if (pattern.matcher(url).find()){
LOGGER.info("Setting donotLog attribute");
request.setAttribute("donotLog","true");
}
}
...
Define this init-params in web.xml
<filter>
<filter-name>requestFilter</filter-name>
<filter-class>com.netgear.hms.config.RequestFilter</filter-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>logParam</param-name>
<param-value>donotLog</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>donotLogPattern</param-name>
<param-value>creditCard|passowrd</param-value>
</init-param>