Customizing Zowe API Mediation Layer logging

Zowe API Mediation Layer uses logback for its logging. You can customize the logging of Zowe API Mediation Layer by specifying the customized logback.xml file in zowe.yaml for each service separately.

To change the default logback configuration file, set components.<component>.logging.config with a path to your logback.xml.

• component
  Specifies one of the following services:
  • gateway
  • discovery
  • api-catalog
  • caching-service
  • zaas

Example with Gateway Service:

components:
  gateway:
    logging:
      config: /path/to/logback.xml

Default logging configuration file

The following logback.xml is an example of logging configuration file which is used by default in all API Mediation Layer components:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
    <property resource="application.yml" />
    <property name="MAX_INDEX" value="${rollingPolicy.maxIndex:-12}"/>
    <property name="MIN_INDEX" value="${rollingPolicy.minIndex:-1}"/>
    <property name="MAX_FILE_SIZE" value="${rollingPolicy.file.maxSize:-50MB}"/>
    <property name="STORAGE_LOCATION" value="${apiml.logs.location}" />
    <property name="apimlLogPattern" value="%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS,UTC} %clr(&lt;${logbackService:-${logbackServiceName}}:%thread:${PID:- }&gt;){magenta} %X{userid:-} %clr(%-5level) %clr(\\(%logger{15}\\)){cyan} %msg%n"/>

    <turboFilter class="org.zowe.apiml.product.logging.UseridFilter"/>
    <if condition='property("spring.profiles.include").contains("debug")||property("spring.profiles.include").contains("diag")||property("spring.profiles.include").contains("dev")'>
        <then>
        </then>
        <else>
            <turboFilter class="org.zowe.apiml.product.logging.ApimlDependencyLogHider"/>
            <turboFilter class="org.zowe.apiml.product.logging.LogLevelInfoFilter"/>
            <turboFilter class="ch.qos.logback.classic.turbo.DuplicateMessageFilter">
                <AllowedRepetitions>0</AllowedRepetitions>
            </turboFilter>
        </else>
    </if>
    <conversionRule conversionWord="clr" converterClass="org.springframework.boot.logging.logback.ColorConverter" />
    <appender name="STDOUT" class="ch.qos.logback.core.ConsoleAppender">
        <encoder class="ch.qos.logback.core.encoder.LayoutWrappingEncoder">
            <layout class="org.zowe.apiml.product.logging.MaskingLogPatternLayout">
                <pattern>${apimlLogPattern}</pattern>
            </layout>
        </encoder>
    </appender>

    <appender name="FILE" class="org.zowe.apiml.product.logging.ApimlRollingFileAppender">
        <file>${STORAGE_LOCATION}/${logbackServiceName}.log</file>

        <rollingPolicy class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.FixedWindowRollingPolicy">
            <fileNamePattern>${STORAGE_LOCATION}/${logbackServiceName}.%i.log</fileNamePattern>
            <minIndex>${MIN_INDEX}</minIndex>
            <maxIndex>${MAX_INDEX}</maxIndex>
        </rollingPolicy>

        <triggeringPolicy class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.SizeBasedTriggeringPolicy">
            <maxFileSize>${MAX_FILE_SIZE}</maxFileSize>
        </triggeringPolicy>

        <encoder class="ch.qos.logback.core.encoder.LayoutWrappingEncoder">
            <layout class="org.zowe.apiml.product.logging.MaskingLogPatternLayout">
                <pattern>${apimlLogPattern}</pattern>
            </layout>
        </encoder>
    </appender>

    <root level="INFO">
        <appender-ref ref="STDOUT" />
        <appender-ref ref="FILE" />
    </root>
</configuration>

note

You can find the current default logging configuration file by following this link.

Customization example

One of the examples of possible customization is changing the pattern for the logged messages. The pattern is defined in the apimlLogPattern property in logback.xml. By default, the API Mediation Layer prints log messages, as in the following example:

2024-08-01 12:52:27.922 <ZWEAGW1:DiscoveryClient-InstanceInfoReplicator-0:33948829> ZWESVUSR INFO (o.z.a.g.h.GatewayHealthIndicator) ZWEAM001 API Mediation Layer started

In the following table you can see each part of the apimlLogPattern in the example of the message above:

Pattern part	Message part
%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS,UTC}	2024-08-01 12:52:27.922
%clr(&lt;${logbackService:-${logbackServiceName}}:%thread:${PID:- }&gt;){magenta}	<ZWEAGW1:DiscoveryClient-InstanceInfoReplicator-0:33948829>
%X{userid:-}	ZWESVUSR
%clr(%-5level)	INFO
%clr(\\(%logger{15}\\)){cyan}	(o.z.a.g.h.GatewayHealthIndicator)
%msg	ZWEAM001 API Mediation Layer started

You can edit, move, remove, or add some parts in the pattern based on your requirements.

note

The full documentation of Logback pattern are available on Logback site.