Log format

https://kubernetes.github.io/ingress-nginx/user-guide/nginx-configuration/log-format/

The default configuration uses a custom logging format to add additional information about upstreams, response time and status.

log_format upstreaminfo
    '{{ if $cfg.useProxyProtocol }}$proxy_protocol_addr{{ else }}$remote_addr{{ end }} - '
    '[$the_real_ip] - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" '
    '$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" "$http_user_agent" '
    '$request_length $request_time [$proxy_upstream_name] $upstream_addr '
    '$upstream_response_length $upstream_response_time $upstream_status';

Placeholder	Description
$proxy_protocol_addr	remote address if proxy protocol is enabled
$remote_addr	remote address if proxy protocol is disabled (default)
$the_real_ip	the source IP address of the client
$remote_user	user name supplied with the Basic authentication
$time_local	local time in the Common Log Format
$request	full original request line
$status	response status
$body_bytes_sent	number of bytes sent to a client, not counting the response header
$http_referer	value of the Referer header
$http_user_agent	value of User-Agent header
$request_length	request length (including request line, header, and request body)
$request_time	time elapsed since the first bytes were read from the client
$proxy_upstream_name	name of the upstream. The format is upstream-<namespace>-<service name>-<service port>
$upstream_addr	the IP address and port (or the path to the domain socket) of the upstream server. If several servers were contacted during request processing, their addresses are separated by commas.
$upstream_response_length	the length of the response obtained from the upstream server
$upstream_response_time	time spent on receiving the response from the upstream server as seconds with millisecond resolution
$upstream_status	status code of the response obtained from the upstream server

Sources:

• Upstream variables
• Embedded variables