Basic nginx file that contains all possible log parameters in JSON format

nginx.conf

worker_processes  2;
user              www-data;

events {
  use           epoll;
  worker_connections  128;
}

error_log /dev/stdout info;

http {
  server_tokens off;
  include       mime.types;
  charset       utf-8;

  log_format json_combined escape=json
  '{'
  '"@timestamp":"$time_iso8601",'
  '"arg_name":"$arg_name",'
  '"args":"$args",'
  '"binary_remote_addr":"$binary_remote_addr",'
  '"body_bytes_sent":"$body_bytes_sent",'
  '"bytes_sent":"$bytes_sent",'
  '"connection":"$connection",'
  '"connection_requests":"$connection_requests",'
  '"connection_time":"$connection_time",'
  '"content_length":"$content_length",'
  '"content_type":"$content_type",'
  '"cookie_name":"$cookie_name",'
  '"document_root":"$document_root",'
  '"document_uri":"$document_uri",'
  '"host":"$host",'
  '"hostname":"$hostname",'
  '"http_name":"$http_name",'
  '"https":"$https",'
  '"is_args":"$is_args",'
  '"limit_rate":"$limit_rate",'
  '"msec":"$msec",'
  '"nginx_version":"$nginx_version",'
  '"pid":"$pid",'
  '"pipe":"$pipe",'
  '"proxy_protocol_addr":"$proxy_protocol_addr",'
  '"proxy_protocol_port":"$proxy_protocol_port",'
  '"proxy_protocol_server_addr":"$proxy_protocol_server_addr",'
  '"proxy_protocol_server_port":"$proxy_protocol_server_port",'
  '"proxy_protocol_tlv_name":"$proxy_protocol_tlv_name",'
  '"query_string":"$query_string",'
  '"realpath_root":"$realpath_root",'
  '"remote_addr":"$remote_addr",'
  '"remote_port":"$remote_port",'
  '"remote_user":"$remote_user",'
  '"request":"$request",'
  '"request_body":"$request_body",'
  '"request_body_file":"$request_body_file",'
  '"request_completion":"$request_completion",'
  '"request_filename":"$request_filename",'
  '"request_id":"$request_id",'
  '"request_length":"$request_length",'
  '"request_method":"$request_method",'
  '"request_time":"$request_time",'
  '"request_uri":"$request_uri",'
  '"scheme":"$scheme",'
  '"sent_http_name":"$sent_http_name",'
  '"sent_trailer_name":"$sent_trailer_name",'
  '"server_addr":"$server_addr",'
  '"server_name":"$server_name",'
  '"server_port":"$server_port",'
  '"server_protocol":"$server_protocol",'
  '"status":"$status",'
  '"tcpinfo_rtt":"$tcpinfo_rtt",'
  '"tcpinfo_rttvar":"$tcpinfo_rttvar",'
  '"tcpinfo_snd_cwnd":"$tcpinfo_snd_cwnd",'
  '"tcpinfo_rcv_space":"$tcpinfo_rcv_space",'
  '"time_iso8601":"$time_iso8601",'
  '"time_local":"$time_local",'
  '"uri":"$uri",'
  '}';

  access_log    /dev/stdout json_combined;

  server {
    listen        8999;

    error_page    500 502 503 504  /50x.html;

    location      / {
      return 200 'hello world!\n';
    }

  }
}

$ docker run --rm --name nginxlogconfig -p 8999:8999 -v ./nginx.conf:/etc/nginx/nginx.conf:ro -d nginx
$ curl -d 'nice=cool' -X POST "http://localhost:8999/test?hello=hi"
$ docker logs <id> | grep "{" | tail -n 1 | sed 's/,}/}/g' | jq '.'