Monitor your PSPDFKit Server logs

PSPDFKit Server has been deprecated and replaced by Document Engine. To migrate to Document Engine and unlock advanced document processing capabilities, refer to our migration guide. Learn more about these enhancements on our blog.

PSPDFKit Server is packaged as a Docker container, which allows you to use standardized Docker tooling to capture logs written by Server to the standard output. In addition, if you deploy Server in the cloud, all major cloud providers offer support for logs emitted by Docker containers running on their infrastructure with their log aggregation systems.

See the following:

• Using the awslogs Log Driver

• How to find—and use—your GKE logs with Cloud Logging

• Enable Azure Monitor for containers

Correlating Logs Using a Request ID

Log messages associated with HTTP requests are marked with a request_id=<request-id> label. Logs correlated with the same request have the same request ID. This helps you determine which request triggered a specific response and what errors or warnings were emitted during request processing.

Here’s an example request and response log with a matching request ID:

[info]  2021-02-05 12:00:34.097  POST /api/documents request_id=FmDYakNs2xDF1NkAAASC
[info]  2021-02-05 12:00:34.168  Sent 200 in 70ms request_id=FmDYakNs2xDF1NkAAASC

You can also customize the request_id label by providing your own ID via the X-Request-Id request header. The custom request ID needs to be between 20 and 200 characters long.