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one-line-access-log plugin

Grails does not come with a Grails-centric access log which shows useful info for every request.

This plugin sets up a filter that logs the following info:

• source IP address
• http response status code
• total time and percentage spent in view processing
• http method
• controller and action names
• params hash with configurable list of sensitive parameters that should be filtered, e.g. passwords

Example log entry:

(127.0.0.1) Status 200 in 3.525s (view 73%) for [GET] to PromotionController#dashboard [omhPropertyId:1, password:[FILTERED], promoStatus:[APP, FUT], promoType:[DO, FN, PO, VA]]

Installation

• add as runtime dependency to BuildConfig.groovy
• configure grails.exceptionresolver.params.exclude to Config.groovy to filter sensitive data
• Configure log4j loggers in Config.groovy, e.g. root { info 'stdout' }

Configuration

Configuration of application-specific Grails Filters

To ensure that your application's LoggingFilters is executed before the plugin log is written, add the following to Config.groovy

grails.plugins.one.line.access.log.dependsOnFilters = [filters.LoggingFilters.class]

This can be used to set app-specific data into the Log4j's MDC, so that it would be logged along with the access log entry.

Configuration of sensitive parameters that should be filtered from the logs.

Configure list of parameter names for the values should be replaced with '[FILTERED]' in the log.

grails.exceptionresolver.params.exclude = 'password'