Hello Luca, On Tue, 3 Sep 2019 at 09:18, Schimweg, Luca <luca.schim...@sap.com> wrote: > > Hey, > > > > for one use case I have, I would need a variable like %uuid in log-formats, > which just generates a random UUID. The use-case would be, to be able > to set the unique-id-format to this uuid, so that we can have a random uuid > set as request-id for any incoming request. Right now, it’s quite difficult to > get a random and unique request-id, the random uuid approach would > definitely help with that.
I assume the rand [1] does not suffice. In this case, I'd suggest to use LUA for this, maybe by using some library like lua-resty-jit-uuid [2]. Lukas [1] https://cbonte.github.io/haproxy-dconv/1.9/configuration.html#7.3.2-rand [2] https://github.com/thibaultcha/lua-resty-jit-uuid
