HTTP Log

Release date 2025/12/18

Feature

• added support for the tls_certificate_verify global option. When this option is enabled, the plugin’s ssl_verify flag cannot be disabled.

• added the flag ssl_verify to control certificate verification when pushing logs to the configured http_endpoint.

Release date 2024/09/11

Bugfix

• Fix an issue where the plugin doesn’t include port information in the HTTP host header when sending requests to the log server.

Release date 2023/05/19

Feature

• Added the application/json; charset=utf-8 option for the Content-Type header to support log collectors that require that character set declaration.#10533

Breaking Change

• If the log server responds with a 3xx HTTP status code, the plugin now considers it to be an error and retries according to the retry configuration. Previously, 3xx status codes would be interpreted as a success, causing the log entries to be dropped.#10172

• Plugin batch queuing: HTTP Log, StatsD, OpenTelemetry, and Datadog

  The queuing system has been reworked, causing some plugin parameters to not function as expected anymore. If you use queues in these plugins, new parameters must be configured. See each plugin’s documentation for details.

Release date 2023/02/28

Feature

• The headers configuration parameter is now referenceable, which means it can be securely stored in a vault.#9948

• Improved Plugin Documentation: Revised docs for the following plugins to include examples:

  • CORS
  • File Log
  • HTTP Log
  • JWT Signer
  • Key Auth
  • OpenID Connect
  • Rate Limiting Advanced
  • SAML
  • StatsD

• Improved Plugin Documentation: HTTP Log

Release date 2022/12/06

Feature

• WebSocket service/route support was added for logging plugins: http-log

Bugfix

• Fixed an issue where queue ID serialization did not include queue_size and flush_timeout.#9789

Release date 2022/09/09

Bugfix

• Log output is now restricted to the workspace the plugin is running in. Previously, the plugin could log requests from outside of its workspace.

Breaking Change

• The headers field now only takes a single string per header name, where it previously took an array of values.#6992

Release date 2023/03/28

Bugfix

• Fixed an issue in this plugin’s batch queue processing, where metrics would be published multiple times. This caused a memory leak, where memory usage would grow without limit.#10052 #10044

Release date 2023/01/06

Bugfix

• Fixed the could not update kong admin internal error caused by empty headers. This error occurred when using this plugin with the Kong Ingress Controller.

Release date 2022/07/15

Bugfix

• Log output is now restricted to the workspace the plugin is running in. Previously, the plugin could log requests from outside of its workspace.

Release date 2022/04/07

Bugfix

• Include provided query string parameters when sending logs to the http_endpoint