Nginx Verbose Access Log Format

README.md

The snippet below outputs a verbose version of the nginx access log

To use it, simply copy the contents of verbose-access.conf and paste it into your http block.

NB:

make sure to remove / comment out any existing access_log definitions such as access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log;

Example output:

Timestamp:         22/May/2018:09:49:01 +0000

    Matched Server:     localhost
    Protocol:           HTTP/1.1
    IP (server):        172.20.0.7
    IP (remote):        172.20.0.1
    Port:               80
    Status:             200

    Request:            GET / HTTP/1.1
    Requested URI:      /
    URI:                /index.php
    Query Args:         -

    Request Body:       -
    Request Body File:  -

    Request Filename:   /var/www/html/index.php
    Realpath Root:      /var/www/html
    Final File:         /var/www/html/index.php

    ## Misc
    Remote User:        -
    Referrer            -
    User Agent          Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_13_4) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/66.0.3359.181 Safari/537.36
    Forwarded for       -

    ## cache


    ===============================================================================

verbose-access.conf

log_format verbose      '
Timestamp:         $time_local

Matched Server:     $server_name
Protocol:           $server_protocol
IP (server):        $server_addr
IP (remote):        $remote_addr
Port:               $server_port
Status:             $status

Request:            $request
Requested URI:      $request_uri
URI:                $uri
Query Args:         $args

Request Body:       $request_body
Request Body File:  $request_body_file

Request Filename:   $request_filename
Realpath Root:      $realpath_root
Final File:         $realpath_root$uri

## Misc
Remote User:        $remote_user
Referrer            $http_referer
User Agent          $http_user_agent
Forwarded for       $http_x_forwarded_for

## cache


===============================================================================';

access_log html/logs/nginx/access-verbose.log verbose;