Logging entire POST body with HAProxy?

Solution 1:

Apparently since version 1.6.0 (October 2015) you can now. There is a new directive:

option http-buffer-request

That you include in the front-end or back-end to give HAProxy access to the body. And you use req.body to access it. Here is a summary of the config I used:

global
        log     127.0.0.1 local0
        debug
        maxconn 2048
        ulimit-n 8012
#        ...

defaults
    mode http
    option httplog
    log-format frontend:%f/%H/%fi:%fp\ GMT:%T\  body:%[capture.req.hdr(0)]\ request:%r
    option dontlognull
#   ...

frontend www-http
   log global
   option http-buffer-request
# id=0 to store body for logging
   declare capture request len 40000
   bind 7.7.7.7:8007 
   http-request capture req.body id 0

   default_backend www-backend

backend www-backend
    mode http
    option forwardfor
#   ...

Solution 2:

Haproxy does not have a facility to log POST content or HTTP bodies.

Use Wireshark instead.