log X-Amzn-Trace-Id to trace requests through my Application Load Balancer - AWS

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How do I log X-Amzn-Trace-Id to trace requests through my Application Load Balancer and web servers?

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Which web service are you using?

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I am using the Apache web server.

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Hey use the following steps to log the X-Amzn-Trace_Id header:

1. Open the Apache configuration file ( /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf in Amazon Linux) in your preferred text editor.

2. In the LogFormat section, add the option %{X-Amzn-Trace-Id}i as follows:

LogFormat "%{X-Forwarded-For}i %h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b %D \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\" \"%{X-Amzn-Trace-Id}i\"" combined

3. Restart the Apache service to apply your changes as follows:  

sudo service apache restart

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Hey @Tanya, can you make this an answer? I will upvote it!

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Sure @Kalgi :)

Answer 1

Hey use the following steps to log the X-Amzn-Trace_Id header:

1. Open the Apache configuration file ( /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf in Amazon Linux) in your preferred text editor.

2. In the LogFormat section, add the option %{X-Amzn-Trace-Id}i as follows:

LogFormat "%{X-Forwarded-For}i %h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b %D \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\" \"%{X-Amzn-Trace-Id}i\"" combined

3. Restart the Apache service to apply your changes as follows:  

sudo service apache restart