VMWare Log Insight Log Plugin

Setup#

The VMWare Log Insight plugin enables pushing logs to your VMWare Log Insights via the REST API. Simply set the url option to the value of your Log Insights host (i.e. https://loginsight.example.com).

Optionally, you can configure additional fields that will be sent with your logs, for example if you want to include an appname field that indicates the name of your Zuplo API, you can do so as shown below. Theses fields will be included on every log entry.

modules/zuplo.runtime.ts

import {
  RuntimeExtensions,
  VMWareLogInsightLoggingPlugin,
  environment,
} from "@zuplo/runtime";
 
export function runtimeInit(runtime: RuntimeExtensions) {
  runtime.addPlugin(
    new VMWareLogInsightLoggingPlugin({
      url: "https://loginsight.example.com",
      fields: {
        appname: "zuplo",
      },
    }),
  );
}

Standard Fields#

Every log entry will have a timestamp and a text object. The value of the text object is an JSON encoded array of messages sent in that log entry.

Default fields are:

severity - The level of the log, i.e. ERROR, INFO, etc.
request_id - The UUID of the request (the value of the zp-rid header)
environment_type - Where the Zuplo API is running. Values are edge, working-copy, or local
log_source - The source of the log. Either user or system
atomic_counter - An atomic number that is used to order logs that have the same timestamp
environment - The environment name of the Zuplo API
request_ray_id - The Cloudflare RayID of the request (for edge deployed environments)

Log Format#

The shape of the logs sent from Zuplo will be in the following format:

{
  "timestamp": 1696596905883,
  "text": "hello world",
  "fields": [
    { "name": "severity", "content": "INFO" },
    {
      "name": "request_id",
      "content": "709d2491-0703-4ea9-86ea-d2af548cd4d9"
    },
    { "name": "environment_type", "content": "working-copy" },
    { "name": "log_source", "content": "request" },
    { "name": "atomic_counter", "content": 1 }
  ]
}

Example Logs#

When objects are logged, they will be converted to a key value string format as shown below.

{
  "timestamp": 1696603735057,
  "text": "hello=\"hello world\" foo=1 baz=true",
  "fields": [
    { "name": "severity", "content": "INFO" },
    {
      "name": "request_id",
      "content": "709d2491-0703-4ea9-86ea-d2af548cd4d9"
    },
    { "name": "environment_type", "content": "working-copy" },
    { "name": "log_source", "content": "request" },
    { "name": "atomic_counter", "content": 1 }
  ]
}

Errors will be included as fields in the log. The fields are error_name, error_message, and error_stack.

{
  "timestamp": 1696603735055,
  "text": "Something bad happened",
  "fields": [
    { "name": "severity", "content": "INFO" },
    {
      "name": "request_id",
      "content": "709d2491-0703-4ea9-86ea-d2af548cd4d9"
    },
    { "name": "environment_type", "content": "working-copy" },
    { "name": "log_source", "content": "request" },
    { "name": "atomic_counter", "content": 1 },
    { "name": "error_name", "content": "Error" },
    { "name": "error_message", "content": "This is an error" },
    {
      "name": "error_stack",
      "content": "Error: This is an error\n    at exampleFunction (module/foo.ts:32:21)"
    }
  ]
}