Log an applications usage of Crowd

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We have just created a new "Generic" application in Crowd and would like to monitor its interaction with the server/api.

Is it possible to log the activity of an individual application? If so any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

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Based on Caspar's comment, there appears to be no native way to achieve the goal.

For the purpose of testing, I have configured Access Logging in Tomcat for the crowd context in our test instance as follows:

1. Stop Crowd

2. Modify {crowd-install}\apache-tomcat\conf\Catalina\localhost\crowd.xml and add the following element before the </Context> element:

   <Valve
       className="org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve"
       directory="${catalina.base}/logs"
       prefix="access_log."
       fileDateFormat="yyyy-MM-dd"
       suffix=".log"
       pattern="%a %{Authorization}i %t "%m %U%q %H" %s %b %D "%{Referer}i" "%{User-Agent}i""
      />

3. Start Crowd

This generates an access log file (one per day) in {crowd-install}\apache-tomcat\logs which can be interrogated to evaluate the interactions of an application with Crowd.

NB:

• This has been seen to work with Atlassian Crowd 2.7.x and 2.8.x - though there are no guarantees/warranties for its impact - use at your own discretion.
• The access log will include all interactions with Crowd, including those from the Console itself and any configured applications, e.g. JIRA and Confluence, therefore the access log files can grow rather quickly