Learning WSO2 API Manager - MIND MAP

How to enable audit logs for WSO2 API-M

In API-M there is no audit logs enabled by default. If you consider IS, start up the server and log-in as admin, you can see under [IS-HOME]/repository/logs folder there is a file called audit.log.

But this is not the case with WSO2 API-M. The audit logs are not enabled by default with API-M. You have to manually enable it in configurations files. But this can be done in few easy steps.

1) Download WSO2 API Manager
2) Then extract it to a folder
3) Go to [API-M HOME]/repository/conf/log4j.properties file and add the following configuration for the log file

log4j.logger.AUDIT_LOG=INFO, AUDIT_LOGFILE


then add the following set of configurations...

# Appender config to AUDIT_LOGFILE
log4j.appender.AUDIT_LOGFILE=org.apache.log4j.DailyRollingFileAppender
log4j.appender.AUDIT_LOGFILE.File=${carbon.home}/repository/logs/audit.log
log4j.appender.AUDIT_LOGFILE.Append=true
log4j.appender.AUDIT_LOGFILE.layout=org.wso2.carbon.utils.logging.TenantAwarePatternLayout
log4j.appender.AUDIT_LOGFILE.layout.ConversionPattern=[%d] %P%5p - %x %m %n
log4j.appender.AUDIT_LOGFILE.layout.TenantPattern=%U%@%D [%T] [%S]
log4j.appender.AUDIT_LOGFILE.threshold=INFO
log4j.additivity.AUDIT_LOG=false

4) Save the configurations and start the server

5) TA-DA now you have the audit logs in API-M :)