LogProx 🏗️

A blazing-fast HTTP proxy with conditional logging and request control

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⚡ Exceptionally low latency • 🔍 Conditional logging • 🛡️ Request filtering • 🔄 Hot reload

Quick Start • Features • Configuration • Examples

🚀 Quick Start

Installation

# Install from crates.io
cargo install logprox

# Or build from source
git clone https://github.com/bryan-lott/logprox.git
cd logprox
cargo build --release

Basic Usage

# Start with default config
./target/release/logprox

# Or specify custom config
./target/release/logprox --config my-config.yaml

# Set environment variables
PORT=8080 CONFIG_FILE=config.yaml ./target/release/logprox

Simple Example

Create a config.yaml:

logging:
  default: false
  rules:
    - name: "Monitor API calls"
      match_conditions:
        path:
          patterns: ["/api/.*"]
      capture:
        method: true
        path: true
        timing: true

Start LogProx and make a request:

curl -X GET "http://localhost:3000/api/test"

📋 Table of Contents

• Problem Statement
• Features
• Architecture
• Performance
• Configuration
• Examples
• API Reference
• Troubleshooting
• Contributing
• License

❓ Problem Statement

Accessing an external API with a deprecated version can cause additional cost, bad data, and/or banning of access from the API. Tracking down where those requests are coming from can be a huge headache.

LogProx offers a solution: Place it between any internal callers and the external API, set up rules to log for specific headers, methods, paths, or request bodies.

✨ Features

• ⚡ Ultra-Low Latency: Sub-millisecond overhead for maximum performance
• 🔍 Smart Logging: Conditional request/response logging based on flexible rules
• 🛡️ Request Control: Drop, filter, and transform requests before they reach upstream services
• 🔄 Hot Reload: Update configuration without restarting the service
• 📊 Built-in Monitoring: Health checks, configuration endpoints, and response logging

Feature Status

• Request Logging: Headers, URL path, HTTP method, request body
• Request Dropping: Block requests based on any criteria
• Response Logging: Monitor upstream service responses
• Configuration Management: Hot reload, validation, and documentation
• Header Injection: Add/modify headers conditionally
• Rate Limiting: Token bucket and sliding window algorithms
• Load Balancing: Distribute traffic across multiple upstream targets

🏗️ Architecture

LogProx sits between your application and upstream APIs, providing transparent proxying with intelligent request processing:

┌─────────────┐    ┌───────────┐    ┌────────────────┐
│   Client    │───▶│  LogProx  │───▶│  Upstream API  │
│ Application │    │           │    │                │
└─────────────┘    └───────────┘    └────────────────┘
                         │
                         ▼
                   ┌────────────┐
                   │   Logs &   │
                   │  Metrics   │
                   └────────────┘

Request Flow:

1. Receive: Accept incoming HTTP requests
2. Evaluate: Check against logging and dropping rules
3. Process: Log, drop, or forward based on rules
4. Monitor: Capture response details if configured
5. Respond: Return results to client

⚡ Performance

Benchmark Results (on standard hardware):

• Request Latency Overhead: < 0.1ms per request
• Throughput: 10,000+ requests per second
• Memory Usage: ~5MB baseline + ~1KB per active connection
• CPU Usage: Minimal overhead (< 1% on modern hardware)

Performance Philosophy:

• Zero-copy request processing where possible
• Efficient regex compilation and caching
• Minimal allocations in hot paths
• Async I/O for maximum concurrency

🔮 Roadmap

We're actively working on these features. Have a suggestion? Open an issue!

Phase 1 (Next Release)

• Header Injection: Add/modify headers conditionally
• Configuration Validation: Schema validation and rule testing
• Metrics & Monitoring: Prometheus/Open Telemetry integration

Phase 2 (Future Releases)

• Rate Limiting: Token bucket algorithm with configurable limits
• Load Balancing: Round-robin and least-connections algorithms
• Circuit Breaker: Automatic failure detection and recovery
• Request Transformation: JSON path-based request/response modification

Long-term Vision

• Service Discovery: Kubernetes, Consul, and etcd integration
• Advanced Security: IP filtering, API keys, and audit trails

⚙️ Configuration

LogProx uses YAML configuration files with support for environment variable substitution (${VAR_NAME}).

Environment Variables

Quick Reference

server:
  port: 3000
  config_file: config.yaml

logging:
  default: false
  rules:
    - name: "API Monitoring"
      match_conditions:
        path: { patterns: ["/api/.*"] }
        methods: ["POST", "PUT"]
      capture: { method: true, path: true, timing: true }

drop:
  default: false
  rules:
    - name: "Block Bots"
      match_conditions:
        headers: { "user-agent": ".*bot.*" }
      response: { status_code: 403, body: "Access denied" }

response_logging:
  default: false
  rules:
    - name: "Log Errors"
      match_conditions:
        status_codes: [400, 401, 403, 404, 500, 502, 503]
      capture: { status_code: true, timing: true }

📚 Full Configuration Reference

Server Configuration

server:
  port: 3000 # Server port (can be overridden by PORT env var)
  config_file: config.yaml # Config file path (can be overridden by CONFIG_FILE env var)

Logging Configuration

logging:
  default: false # Default logging behavior if no rules match
  rules: # Array of logging rules
    - name: "Rule Name" # Descriptive name for the rule
      match_conditions: # Conditions that must ALL match
        path: # URL path patterns (regex)
          patterns:
            - "/api/.*"
        methods: # HTTP methods to match
          - "POST"
          - "PUT"
        headers: # Required headers and regex patterns
          "content-type": "application/json.*"
          "authorization": "Bearer .*"
        body: # Request body patterns (regex)
          patterns:
            - '"amount":\s*\d+'
      capture: # What to include in logs
        headers: # List of header names to capture
          - "content-type"
          - "user-agent"
        body: true # Whether to log request body
        method: true # Whether to log HTTP method
        path: true # Whether to log URL path
        timing: true # Whether to log timing information

Drop Configuration

drop:
  default: false # Default drop behavior if no rules match
  rules: # Array of drop rules
    - name: "Rule Name" # Descriptive name for the rule
      match_conditions: # Conditions that must ALL match (same as logging)
        path:
          patterns:
            - "/deprecated/.*"
        methods:
          - "GET"
        headers:
          "user-agent": ".*bot.*"
        body:
          patterns:
            - "<script>.*</script>"
      response: # Response to return when dropping
        status_code: 403 # HTTP status code
         body: "Access denied" # Response body (supports env vars)

Response Logging Configuration

response_logging:
  default: false # Default logging behavior if no rules match
  rules: # Array of response logging rules
    - name: "Log error responses" # Descriptive name for the rule
      match_conditions: # Conditions that must ALL match
        status_codes: # HTTP status codes to match
          - 400
          - 401
          - 403
          - 404
          - 500
        headers: # Required headers and regex patterns
          "content-type": "application/json.*"
        body: # Response body patterns (regex)
          patterns:
            - "error.*"
      capture: # What to include in logs
        headers: # List of header names to capture
          - "content-type"
          - "x-request-id"
        body: true # Whether to log response body
        status_code: true # Whether to log HTTP status code
        timing: true # Whether to log timing information

Pattern Matching

Regex Syntax

All pattern matching uses Rust's regex engine. Common patterns:

• .* - Match any characters
• ^/api/ - Match paths starting with /api/
• \d+ - Match one or more digits
• (option1|option2) - Match either option1 or option2

Matching Logic

• Path patterns: At least one pattern must match the request path
• Methods: The request method must be in the methods list (if specified)
• Headers: ALL specified headers must be present and match their patterns
• Body patterns: At least one pattern must match the request body content
• Rule evaluation: Rules are evaluated in order; first match wins

Examples

Basic API Logging

logging:
  default: false
  rules:
    - name: "Log API requests"
      match_conditions:
        path:
          patterns:
            - "/api/.*"
        methods:
          - "POST"
          - "PUT"
          - "DELETE"
      capture:
        headers:
          - "content-type"
          - "authorization"
        body: true
        method: true
        path: true
        timing: true

Security: Block Malicious Requests

drop:
  default: false
  rules:
    - name: "Block XSS attempts"
      match_conditions:
        body:
          patterns:
            - "<script>.*</script>"
            - "javascript:"
            - "onload="
      response:
        status_code: 400
        body: "Malicious content detected"

Rate Limiting Simulation

drop:
  default: false
  rules:
    - name: "Block bot traffic"
      match_conditions:
        headers:
          "user-agent": ".*(bot|crawler|spider).*"
      response:
        status_code: 429
        body: "Rate limit exceeded"

Response Monitoring

response_logging:
  default: false
  rules:
    - name: "Log API errors"
      match_conditions:
        status_codes:
          - 400
          - 401
          - 403
          - 404
          - 500
          - 502
          - 503
      capture:
        headers:
          - "content-type"
          - "x-correlation-id"
        body: true
        status_code: true
        timing: true

🔌 API Reference

Usage Examples

# Health check
curl http://localhost:3000/health

# Get current config
curl http://localhost:3000/config | jq .

# Reload configuration
curl -X POST http://localhost:3000/config/reload

# View documentation
curl http://localhost:3000/config/docs

🔧 Troubleshooting

Common Issues

Configuration Errors:

# Validate your YAML syntax
yamllint config.yaml

# Test with verbose logging
RUST_LOG=debug ./logprox

Performance Issues:

• Check regex patterns for efficiency
• Monitor memory usage with htop or similar
• Review log volume and consider sampling

Connection Problems:

• Verify upstream service availability
• Check firewall rules and port accessibility
• Review timeout configurations

Debug Mode

Enable detailed logging:

RUST_LOG=logprox=debug ./logprox

📝 Important Notes

• Configuration: Loaded on startup, hot-reloadable via API
• Regex Patterns: Invalid patterns cause rule matching to fail silently
• Request Processing: Bodies are consumed for all requests to enable matching
• Response Logging: Captures details after proxy processing completes
• Environment Variables: Substituted at config load time using ${VAR_NAME} syntax
• Pattern Matching: Case-sensitive by default

🤝 Contributing

We welcome contributions! See CONTRIBUTING.md for guidelines.

📧 Support

• 🐛 Bug Reports: GitHub Issues
• 💡 Feature Requests: GitHub Discussions

📄 License

GNU GPLv3 © Bryan Lott

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A fast, reliable, and secure HTTP proxy for modern applications