On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 3:30 PM Niranjan Rao <nhr...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Greetings,
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> On Ubuntu 20.04, apache version 2.4.29.
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> I did obvious google searches, but may be I am missing right search
> terms and hence request for the help.
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> We have bunch of services on back end servers and we use Apache proxy
> pass and related stuff. This all works perfectly and as documented.
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> Often times we encounter a challenge of tracing the request to end
> server as there are multiple requests coming in to apache and they are
> all distributed to backend server which in turn can make calls to other
> servers. Is it possible to add some sort of transaction token as a
> header when we call proxy pass. We can log the headers at other end,
> carry it forward as needed. This will help us to collate the data and
> quickly figure out what we served for which request.
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> Essentially, I am looking for adding a auto generated unique id to
> headers when proxy pass makes the call to backend. We can log the header
> in our logs or carry it further down as needed so that we can trace the
> flow end to end.
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> Is this possible? If so, can you please help me by pointing out the
> documentation or steps.
You can load mod_uniqueid and copy the UNIQUE_ID environment variable
to a request header, e.g.
RequestHeader set Request-ID %{UNIQUE_ID}eYou can add it to your httpd logs w/ the same syntax in LogFormat > > > Regards, > > > Niranjan > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org > -- Eric Covener cove...@gmail.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org
