Logbook + Scalyr

We primarily use Scalyr for log management at Zalando. When we designed and implemented Logbook we made sure that they both work seamlessly together. The two main aspects that are worth being highlighted are JSON log messages and association rules.

The following sample format, meant to be used in a custom parser, shows both features in action:

{
  id: "http",
  format: "$timestamp=$ $severity$ $threadname$ $flowid$ Logbook $http{parse=json}$",
  association: {
    tag: "http", 
    keys: ["httpCorrelation"], 
    store: ["httpUri"], 
    fetch: ["httpUri"]
  }
}

$http{parse=json}$ will instruct Scalyr to parse a the JSON output from Logbook into the following fields:

http: true
httpCorrelation: b7b143c7-a334-4a26-b800-1e97322efebc
httpHeadersAccept: [application/json]
httpHeadersAccept-Encoding: [gzip,deflate]
httpHeadersAuthorization: [XXX]
httpHeadersConnection: [Keep-Alive]
httpHeadersHost: [localhost:9021]
httpHeadersUser-Agent: [Apache-HttpClient/4.5.1 (Java/1.8.0_131)]
httpHeadersX-Flow-ID: [OWgtIWTdlMuKh97U]
httpMethod: GET
httpRemote: 172.31.157.206
httpType: request
httpUri: https://localhost:9021/oauth2/tokeninfo

Having all request/response properties indexed and parsed into individual fields allows for extremely powerful queries:

# remote POST requests to endpoints containing an admin path segment
$httpOrigin = 'remote' $httpMethod = 'POST' $httpUri matches '.*/admin/.*'

# local requests to the tokeninfo endpoint
$httpOrigin = 'local' $httpUri matches '.*/tokeninfo'

# local responses with a 4xx status code
$httpOrigin = 'local' $httpStatus >= 400 $httpStatus < 500

# remote responses with a 5xx status code
$httpOrigin = `remote` $httpStatus >= 500

Queries like this were also the main motivator behind the origin and type properties of requests and responses produced by Logbook.

The association rule will associate the request and response log lines using Logbook's correlation feature. The resulting log event for the response will then contain the httpUri field from the corresponding request:

http: true
httpBodyAccess_token: XXX
httpBodyClient_id: stups_coast-cart-service_0b29611e-78cb-454c-98f7-65ed7a95a216
httpBodyExpires_in: 2250
httpBodyGrant_type: password
httpBodyRealm: /services
httpBodyScope: [uid]
httpBodyToken_type: Bearer
httpBodyUid: stups_coast-cart-service
httpCorrelation: b7b143c7-a334-4a26-b800-1e97322efebc
httpHeadersContent-Length: [833]
httpHeadersContent-Type: [application/json]
httpHeadersDate: [Thu, 20 Jul 2017 21:24:00 GMT]
httpStatus: 200
httpType: response
httpUri: https://localhost:9021/oauth2/tokeninfo

This allows to query for responses to a specific endpoint that had a 4xx or 5xx status code:

$httpType = 'response' $httpUri = 'https://localhost:9021/oauth2/tokeninfo' $httpStatus >= 400

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