How to get access-logs from OpenShift router (HAProxy)?

You will need to point the router at a syslog server to debug the output. No access logs are output by default. You are seeing the logs of the Go process.

I created a rsyslog container some time ago to help debug issues with a custom router. This will log to stdout for debugging purposes only. Follow the instructions in the readme to deploy this within the default project. Shout if you need any further help.

In the openshift 3.11, you could create a new router using oc adm router command with extended logging enabled

1. New router

oc adm router myrouter --extended-logging

2. Enable debug logging

oc set env dc/myrouter ROUTER_LOG_LEVEL=debug

3. tail the logs

oc logs -f myrouter-x-xxxxx -c syslog

On Openshift >=4.5 you can do it this way by edititing your ingresscontroller and add the following .spec.logging (see below, log format example included):

apiVersion: operator.openshift.io/v1kind: IngressControllermetadata:  name: default  namespace: openshift-ingress-operatorspec:  logging:    access:      destination:        type: Container      # % formats see here: http://cbonte.github.io/haproxy-dconv/2.0/configuration.html#8.2.3      httpLogFormat: log_source="haproxy-default" log_type="http" c_ip="%ci" c_port="%cp"        req_date="%tr" fe_name_transport="%ft" be_name="%b" server_name="%s" res_time="%TR"        tot_wait_q="%Tw" Tc="%Tc" Tr="%Tr" Ta="%Ta" status_code="%ST" bytes_read="%B"        bytes_uploaded="%U" captrd_req_cookie="%CC" captrd_res_cookie="%CS" term_state="%tsc"        actconn="%ac" feconn="%fc" beconn="%bc" srv_conn="%sc" retries="%rc" srv_queue="%sq"        backend_queue="%bq" captrd_req_headers="%hr" captrd_res_headers="%hs" http_request="%r"

This solution is based on https://access.redhat.com/solutions/3250781.
There is a solution for Openshift 3.x as well.

You may access the logs by doing 'oc logs -n openshift-ingress <your-router-pod-name> -c logs'.

It is also possible to send those logs directly to a syslog server:

apiVersion: operator.openshift.io/v1kind: IngressControllermetadata:  name: default  namespace: openshift-ingress-operatorspec:  logging:    access:      destination:        type: Syslog        syslog:          address: 1.2.3.4          port: 10514      # % formats see here: http://cbonte.github.io/haproxy-dconv/2.0/configuration.html#8.2.3      httpLogFormat: log_source="haproxy-default" log_type="http" c_ip="%ci" c_port="%cp"        req_date="%tr" fe_name_transport="%ft" be_name="%b" server_name="%s" res_time="%TR"        tot_wait_q="%Tw" Tc="%Tc" Tr="%Tr" Ta="%Ta" status_code="%ST" bytes_read="%B"        bytes_uploaded="%U" captrd_req_cookie="%CC" captrd_res_cookie="%CS" term_state="%tsc"        actconn="%ac" feconn="%fc" beconn="%bc" srv_conn="%sc" retries="%rc" srv_queue="%sq"        backend_queue="%bq" captrd_req_headers="%hr" captrd_res_headers="%hs" http_request="%r"