NGINX logging changes

[jfmatth]

Hi everyone,

I noticed that in piku.py, the NGINX_COMMON_FRAGMENT has the access.log and error.log commented out.

I'd like to turn this on for a few reasons:

1. piku logs now shows all NGINX log entries
2. systemd doesn't capture these by default, so no reason not to have them somewhere

I was trying to find how NGINX is monitored by other systems, and most of them adjust the format of the logs to their liking anyway.

I'm happy to make a PR for this, but thoughts on why not?

[chr15m]

@jfmatth I think the best way to enable this is using UWSGI_INCLUDE_FILE in the ENV file. You can create nginx.conf and add the logging fragment to it to send those logs wherever you want. I personally also get my apps web framework to do their own logging.

[jfmatth]

of course! A brilliant answer @chr15m thank you.

Ill try that.

BTW, am I wrong that systemd doesn't by default pickup nginx logs? I think it would require a change to journald.conf

[chr15m]

Here's an example nginx.conf from one of my projects:

access_log $LOG_ROOT/$APP/access.log;
error_log $LOG_ROOT/$APP/error.log warn;

Then in ENV: NGINX_INCLUDE_FILE=nginx.conf

[jfmatth]

yea, brilliant idea, worked 100% for what i needed.

thanks again @chr15m for the quick response.

[chr15m]

I have no idea, sorry. I'm a fan of plain text logs I can tail, grep, or whatever so I try to keep it simple like that.

[jfmatth]

Yea, i'm starting to use Grafana's free tier and their NGINX integration is pretty good, but complicated, but your help made it easy.