QUESTION: Any practical way to use this module with multiple Independent servers? about traffic-accounting-nginx-module HOT 3 OPEN

The accounting_log directive supports adding a log output to remote central syslog server with UDP or TCP protocol.

See here for an example: https://github.com/Lax/traffic-accounting-nginx-module/blob/master/samples/http.conf#L6

The support parameters are the same as Nginx logging directives: https://nginx.org/en/docs/syslog.html

On the central syslog server, you can receive and save the logs with a normal syslog implement(rsyslog, syslog-ng),
or use any other logging server such as logstash, to receive and process the logs.
See an example in this folder: https://github.com/Lax/traffic-accounting-nginx-module/tree/master/samples

                      syslog(UDP)
NGINX -----------------------> syslogd / logstash / or your own UDP server

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Do you maybe have an example on how to log looks like in the end? I want to parse the used bandwidth per WebDAV User. Thanks in advance

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The final log looks like this:

# HTTP
2018/05/14 14:18:18 [notice] 5#0: pid:5|from:1526278638|to:1526278659|accounting_id:HTTP_ECHO_HELLO|requests:4872|bytes_in:438480|bytes_out:730800|latency_ms:0|upstream_latency_ms:0|200:4872
2018/05/14 14:18:18 [notice] 5#0: pid:5|from:1526278638|to:1526278659|accounting_id:INDEX|requests:4849|bytes_in:421863|bytes_out:1857167|latency_ms:0|upstream_latency_ms:0|301:4849

# Stream
2018/05/14 14:18:22 [notice] 5#0: pid:5|from:1526278642|to:1526278659|accounting_id:TCP_PROXY_ECHO|sessions:9723|bytes_in:860343|bytes_out:2587967|latency_ms:4133|upstream_latency_ms:3810|200:9723

In the NGINX config file, use accounting_log, let the result transfer to a syslog: target. It's similar to error_log of NGINX (reference)

accounting_log  syslog:server=192.168.1.1:29124  ;

I was using logstash to collect the log, find the config file here

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