Access Gateway access log

Access Gateway access logs include information on HTTP access request events such as GET and POST.

Event Fields

Access Log

Field	Description
TIMESTAMP	The current system date and time.
HOSTNAME	The hostname of the Access Gateway node that's generating the event.
Tag	The application’s unique shortName value, or auth tag for the local Access Gateway Admin UI console.
Application Hostname	The hostname, or public domain, of the application.
Client IP	The client’s IP address.
Request	The HTTP request (GET, POST).
URL	The relative URL.
HTTP Status Code	The HTTP status code.
Request size	The size of the request body in bytes.
HTTP Referrer	Always - (dash).
User Agent	Browser information.
X-Forwarded-For	X-Forwarded-For header received.
Request Time	The time in seconds to receive a request.
Response Time	The time in seconds to send a response.

An event is issued on every resource request. Here's an example of an access event:

2020-06-24T09:40:43.000-05:00 example.myaccessgateway.com auth header.myexample.com 10.0.0.110 - - "GET / HTTP/2.0" 302 163 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.149 Safari/537.36" "-" 0.073 - 2020-06-24T09:41:08.000-05:00 example.myaccessgateway.com auth header.myexample.com 10.0.0.110 - - "GET /assets/images/image.png HTTP/2.0" 200 1229 "https://gw-admin.example.com/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.149 Safari/537.36" "-" 0.029 0.028

HTTP status codes and descriptions

Access Gateway returns the following status codes to the browser. They're also captured in the access log for troubleshooting issues.