Get client ip adress in confluence

Question

Hey guys, how are you?

Is there any way to get the IP of the user accessing the confluence datacenter? The version I have, by default, already captures, but it is the balancer's IP, and I need to collect the origin IP of whoever is accessing a page within confluence. Would a solution via configuration in tomcat be possible?

Thank you very much

Sashymilta · Answer

I had a similar issue and ended up checking the reverse proxy logs instead, since Confluence itself doesn't show the user's real IP without extra setup. That’s also how I figured out someone was using an IP Stresser on our server—only showed up in the proxy logs because the actual IPs were lost behind our load balancer setup.

Sayed Bares [ServiceRocket] · Answer

@Raphael dos Santos I believe you are looking for adding access logs:

* https://www.techstacks.com/howto/configure-access-logging-in-tomcat.html
* https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/enable-x-forwarded-for-http-header-for-identifying-the-originating-ip-address-of-a-client-connecting-to-confluence-1251411719.html