Creating custom access logs in JSON format

[Asiya-Yunusa]

I am trying to create custom access logs in JSON format. I initially tried updating the config map hhtp-snippet but it doesnt work. The nginx.conf file is not updated and the /var/log/nginx/json_access.log file is not created.

How do I achieve this?

apiVersion: v1
kind: ConfigMap
metadata:
  name: nginx-config
  namespace: nginx-ingress
data:
  ssl-session-cache: "True"
  ssl-session-cache-size: 10m
  ssl-session-timeout: 10m
  # stream-snippets: |
  map-hash-bucket-size: "512"
  map-hash-max-size: "2048"
  ssl-ciphers: HIGH:!aNULL:!MD5
  ssl-protocols: TLSv1.2 TLSv1.3
  keepalive-timeout: "80"
  keepalive-requests: "300"
  keepalive: "32"
  server-tokens: "False"
  worker-connections: "4096"
  http-snippet: |  
    log_format json_analytics escape=json '{'
    '"msec": "$msec", '
    '"connection": "$connection", '
    '"connection_requests": "$connection_requests", '
    '"pid": "$pid", '
    '"request_id": "$request_id", '
    '"request_length": "$request_length", '
    '"remote_addr": "$remote_addr", '
    '"remote_user": "$remote_user", '
    '"remote_port": "$remote_port", '
    '"time_local": "$time_local", '
    '"time_iso8601": "$time_iso8601", '
    '"request": "$request", '
    '"request_uri": "$request_uri", '
    '"args": "$args", '
    '"status": "$status", '
    '"body_bytes_sent": "$body_bytes_sent", '
    '"bytes_sent": "$bytes_sent", '
    '"http_referer": "$http_referer", '
    '"http_user_agent": "$http_user_agent", '
    '"http_x_forwarded_for": "$http_x_forwarded_for", '
    '"http_host": "$http_host", '
    '"server_name": "$server_name", '
    '"request_time": "$request_time", '
    '"upstream": "$upstream_addr", '
    '"upstream_connect_time": "$upstream_connect_time", '
    '"upstream_header_time": "$upstream_header_time", '
    '"upstream_response_time": "$upstream_response_time", '
    '"upstream_response_length": "$upstream_response_length", '
    '"upstream_cache_status": "$upstream_cache_status", '
    '"ssl_protocol": "$ssl_protocol", '
    '"ssl_cipher": "$ssl_cipher", '
    '"scheme": "$scheme", '
    '"request_method": "$request_method", '
    '"server_protocol": "$server_protocol", '
    '"pipe": "$pipe", '
    '"gzip_ratio": "$gzip_ratio", '
    '"geoip_country_code": "$geoip_country_code"'
    '}';

    geoip_country /etc/nginx/GeoLite2-Country.mmdb {
      $geoip_country_code default=US source=$remote_addr country iso_code;
    }

    access_log /var/log/nginx/json_access.log json_analytics;