Tag component logs at the producer so JSON log output stays parseable - #3241
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The gateway-runtime container runs Envoy, the policy engine and the Python
executor on one stdout, and the entrypoint wrapped each process's stdout and
stderr in a shell loop that prepended a component tag ([rtr]/[pol]/[pye]).
That loop is a blind line filter running outside the processes, so it could not
tell prose from a machine-destined JSON record and stamped both. The policy
engine's traffic log is always JSON, so every line arrived as
[pol] {"timestamp":"...","correlationId":"...","status":200,...}
which jq rejects at column 5, as do Splunk, Fluent Bit and Loki. The same
defect hit Envoy's access log under router.access_logs.format = "json" and the
policy engine's own logs under policy_engine.logging.format = "json".
Move tagging to each producer, where prose and machine records are
distinguishable, and stop wrapping stdout:
- Envoy: "[rtr] " in the default access-log TextFormat; a "component" field
in the default JSONFields (deployer json_fields merge with the defaults).
- Policy engine: text handler writes through componentPrefixWriter; JSON mode
carries a "component" attribute instead. The traffic-log publisher keeps
writing to os.Stdout directly and gains its own "component" field, so
tagged prose and untouched JSON share one descriptor.
- Python executor: "[pye] " in the logging.Formatter.
- plugin_registry.go.tmpl: the generated init() installs a logger before
main() does, leaving policy-registration lines untagged.
stderr stays wrapped, unconditionally. Nothing writes JSON there (0 of 151
lines in JSON mode) and it carries what bypasses the process loggers — Go
runtime dumps, panics, tracebacks, Envoy fatals.
Verified at runtime on locally built 1.2.0 images in text mode, JSON mode and
with access_logs.enabled = false: zero untagged lines on either stream, all 93
stdout JSON lines parse, no JSON line prefixed, and a forced SIGQUIT stack dump
comes out [pol]-tagged.
Known limitation: the generated init() logger is fixed to text, since
policy_engine.logging.format is unknown until config loads in main(). In JSON
mode those bootstrap lines are tagged text a processor can skip.
(cherry picked from commit c681a5db6080bb301633c6ab1d541b6f4f80c63b)
The previous commit extracted the six duplicated prefixing loops into a shared launch_tagged helper. That is a refactor of pre-existing duplication rather than part of this fix, and it moved PID capture behind an out-parameter — PIDs the shutdown trap and the socket-wait liveness checks depend on. Delete just the stdout redirection at each launch site instead, leaving the stderr loops, $! capture and echo formatting exactly as they were. Five removed lines and one comment, with the same observable behaviour. (cherry picked from commit e5ec0ea7a06c34b469159acbd6311193a69eacd0)
The skill said the container "stamps every log line" and told you to grep '^\[rtr\]'. Machine-readable stdout is no longer stamped, so that recipe now misses the traffic log entirely. Qualify the sentence and state where JSON records went. Drops the earlier version's tour of which producer applies which tag — that is implementation detail already recorded at each code site, and it credited Envoy's tagging to --log-format, which this change does not set. (cherry picked from commit 55dd1035d3bf87c29d4f346f9116965973030b89)
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughGateway logging now preserves JSON stdout records and identifies components through JSON fields. Text logs retain component prefixes. Runtime entrypoints prefix stderr only, while router defaults and debug guidance reflect the new formats. ChangesGateway component-aware logging
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In @.agents/skills/gateway-debug/SKILL.md:
- Around line 470-480: Update the prefix inventory in the gateway-debug
documentation to include [pye] alongside [rtr] and [pol], and describe where
Python executor logs appear in the debugging workflow. Keep the existing
explanations for Docker prefixes and JSON records unchanged.
In `@gateway/gateway-controller/pkg/config/config.go`:
- Around line 973-975: Update the text access-log configuration logic around
TextFormat to ensure custom router.access_logs.format values are prefixed with
“[rtr] ” when missing, while leaving existing-prefixed values unchanged.
Preserve the JSON format behavior, and add a regression test covering a custom
text format without the prefix.
In `@gateway/gateway-runtime/policy-engine/cmd/policy-engine/main_test.go`:
- Around line 430-448: Update captureStdout to defer closing the read end r
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Two review findings. The entrypoint used to prefix the router's whole stdout stream, so a deployer-supplied router.access_logs.text_format still got tagged. Now that only the shipped default carries "[rtr] ", overriding text_format silently loses router attribution on the shared stdout, and validation only checks the format is non-empty. Warn at startup instead of injecting the tag: a format string should render as written, an operator may have dropped the tag deliberately, and detecting "missing" reliably is guesswork. The tag is now a named constant shared by the default and the check, so the two cannot drift. Also close the read end of the pipe in captureStdout, which leaked a descriptor per call.
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componentfor the router.The default sets
componentto"rtr", but the current merge contract allows user-suppliedjson_fieldsto override it. A custom value, or a request-derived value, can prevent downstream consumers from reliably identifying router records. Merge custom fields first, then forcecomponentto"rtr", or reject overrides.The PR objective requires structured records to identify their source through a stable
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In `@gateway/gateway-controller/pkg/config/config.go`:
- Around line 831-836: Update textAccessLogHasComponentTag to use
strings.HasPrefix so the component tag is required at the beginning of the text
format; add a regression case where routerLogComponentTag appears later and
verify it is rejected or warned about.
In `@gateway/gateway-runtime/policy-engine/cmd/policy-engine/main_test.go`:
- Line 437: Update the deferred cleanup around r.Close() to capture its returned
error and report any close failure while preserving the existing cleanup
behavior.
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In `@gateway/gateway-controller/pkg/config/config.go`:
- Around line 958-960: Update the json_fields merge logic around the default
component field so deployer-supplied or request-derived fields cannot override
component. Merge custom fields first, then force component to the stable value
"rtr" (or reject conflicting overrides), preserving reliable router
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strings.Contains accepted a format such as "[%START_TIME%] [rtr] ...", which renders lines like "[2026-...] [rtr] 200". The tag is present but attribution anchors on it at column 0, so grepping by component still misses those lines and no warning fired. Match with HasPrefix, rename the predicate to say what it now checks, and cover a mid-format tag and a leading space.
Local verification scaffolding committed by mistake: it disabled analytics, switched both the access log and policy-engine logging to JSON, and turned traffic logging on. None of that belongs in the shipped defaults.
The new constant was inserted between defaultConfig's doc comment and its declaration, leaving the comment attached to the constant and the function undocumented. gofmt also wanted spaces around the operators in the multi-line warning string.
The prefix inventory listed only [rtr] and [pol], so a reader tailing the container would not know what [pye] lines are or when they appear. Note that the Python executor only starts when compiled Python policies are present, and that Option 2B logs to a host file instead.
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componentfor router attribution.If
router.access_logs.json_fieldscontainscomponent, the map merge can replace the default"component": "rtr". JSON records then lose the guaranteed router identity required by downstream filters. Merge user fields first and write"component": "rtr"last, or reject user overrides for this key. Add a regression test.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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| > Why the `grep`: the `gateway-runtime` container stamps every human-readable log | ||
| > line with one of these prefixes — `[rtr]` (Envoy router), `[pol]` (in-container PE, | ||
| > still receives xDS pushes even in debug mode), `[pye]` (Python executor, started | ||
| > only when compiled Python policies are present), unprefixed (the entrypoint). |
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Here it's mentioned that the entrypoint is unprefixed but seems like in the docker-entrypoint.sh the logging function for entrypoint messages(log()) still appends the [ent]` prefix. Is that intentional?
| # [pye] identifies this process on the container's shared stdout. | ||
| formatter = logging.Formatter( | ||
| fmt='%(asctime)s [%(levelname)s] %(name)s: %(message)s', | ||
| fmt='[pye] %(asctime)s [%(levelname)s] %(name)s: %(message)s', |
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Looks like multiline messages (especially exception tracebacks) don’t get tagged with the [pye] prefix properly. Since logging.Formatter appends the traceback after applying the format string, the prefix only ends up on the first line, while the following lines are untagged. Was this the intended behavior, or should we prefix each physical line of the final formatted message?
Fixes #3206.
Problem
gateway-runtimeruns Envoy, the policy engine and the Python executor in one container, all writing to the same container stdout. To keep the three interleaved streams readable, the entrypoint wrapped each process's stdout and stderr in a shell loop that prepended a component tag:That loop is a blind line filter — it runs outside the processes, after every line has been written, so it cannot tell a human-readable log message from a machine-destined JSON record and stamps both. The policy engine's traffic log is always JSON, so every line arrived as:
jqrejects that at column 5, and so do Splunk, Fluent Bit and Loki. The whole point of the JSON output mode is machine consumption, and the prefix defeats it.Two more outputs are affected by the same mechanism: Envoy's access log whenever
router.access_logs.format = "json", and the policy engine's own application logs whenpolicy_engine.logging.format = "json".Approach
Tag at each producer, where prose and machine records are distinguishable, and stop wrapping stdout.
[rtr]in the defaultTextFormat"component": "rtr"in the defaultJSONFieldscomponentPrefixWriteron thesloghandlercomponentattribute on the loggercomponentfield on the record[pye]in the existinglogging.Formatterinit()plugin_registry.go.tmplTwo points worth reviewer attention:
os.Stdoutdirectly, so tagged prose and untouched JSON coexist on one descriptor. That separation is impossible from the shell, which sees one undifferentiated stream.json_fieldsmerges with the defaults, socomponentsurvives unless a deployer overrides that key explicitly. A deployer who overridestext_format, however, is responsible for keeping the[rtr]tag — noted in a code comment.stderr stays wrapped, deliberately
stdout is unwrapped; stderr is still tagged, unconditionally. Nothing writes JSON there (measured: 0 of 151 lines in JSON mode), and it carries the output that bypasses every logger — Go runtime dumps, panics, Python tracebacks, Envoy fatals. No producer-side mechanism can reach that. Forcing
SIGQUITon the policy engine:Untagged stderr lines during the crash: 0. Without the wrapper that is a few hundred lines of anonymous stack trace on a stream shared by three processes, at exactly the moment you need to know which one died.
Note for future changes: because the wrapper owns stderr, do not also add
[rtr]to an Envoy--log-formatdefault, or application logs would read[rtr] [rtr] …. Each stream has exactly one tagging owner.Verification
Built and run from this branch.
Text mode
All-JSON mode (
access_logs.formatandpolicy_engine.logging.formatbothjson)No functional regression:
/echo/anything200 ·/_gateway-health/ready200 · unmatched path 404 · 52 policies registered · all three processes running.Tests — 6 new, plus existing suites green (
cmd/policy-engine,internal/analytics/..., controllerpkg/config,pkg/xds,pkg/utils):componentPrefixWriterreturnslen(p); any other count reads as a failed write toio.WritercallersWrite, so a concurrent writer cannot interleave between themslogoutput starts with[pol]slogoutput has no prefix, parses, and carries"component":"pol"{and carries"component":"pol"Known limitation
The logger installed by the generated
init()is fixed to text format:policy_engine.logging.formatis not known duringinit(), since config loads inmain(). In JSON logging mode those startup lines are tagged text rather than JSON — a processor can recognise and skip them, but they will not parse. Closing that fully needs the log format resolved before policy registration, which is a larger restructure than this change should carry.