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Some requests on the proxy listener got an answer but wrote no access-log line. Access-log lines are written at the tail of each dispatching handler, and these requests never get there. Two groups were missing:

  • Authentication denials. The AuthenticatedKey extractor short-circuits before the handler runs, so a 401 (no credential, unknown key, disabled or expired key, a rejected JWT) or a JWT entitlement 403 was recorded only in aisix_auth_decisions_total and on the aisix::auth log line, and the scanner-probe shapes of that line are logged at debug.
  • Requests answered without dispatch at all. That covers GET /v1/models (every outcome, including 200), the A2A agent card (/a2a/:agent/.well-known/agent-card.json), the OAuth protected-resource documents (/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource[/mcp]), the 404 for a path no route serves, and the router's automatic 405 when a known path gets the wrong method.

Leaving auth failures out of the access log was a deliberate choice meant to keep scanner probes out of the default log. That choice is reversed here: every request the proxy surface answers now gets exactly one line, and keeping the volume down is the job of the log pipeline or of observability.access_log.

How each group is fixed:

  • The extractor writes the line itself whenever it returns an error. That covers every route that authenticates through it: the model families, /v1/models, files/batches/fine-tuning, videos, /mcp (non-anonymous) and /a2a.
  • The routes that answer without dispatch write their line through a new reject::emit_unrouted_access_log.
  • The 405 comes from a method_not_allowed_fallback, which keeps axum's Allow header.

Every new line carries only what is known at that point: method, raw path, status, latency and request id, plus api_key_id only where the route had already authenticated the caller (the model list and the agent card). Auth-denial lines also carry error_kind and the fixed error message. No line ever contains any part of a presented credential. observability.access_log: false suppresses all of them.

/livez and /readyz still write no line, because they are platform probes, not client traffic. aisix_auth_decisions_total, the aisix::auth denial lines, request metrics and usage events are all unchanged.

Behaviour change: with the access log on (the default), you will now see one proxy request completed line at info for each of these requests:

  • every authentication denial, unauthenticated scanner probes included
  • every request to a path no route serves (404)
  • every request using the wrong method on a known path (405)
  • every model-list call
  • every A2A agent-card fetch
  • every OAuth discovery-document fetch

An internet-facing gateway will log noticeably more. Operators can filter these lines in their log pipeline or turn the access log off with observability.access_log: false. None of the existing access-log fields change meaning.

Audit of the proxy listener's paths that answer before or outside dispatch:

  • Auth denial via the AuthenticatedKey extractor, on every typed route plus /mcp and /a2a: fixed here
  • GET /v1/models, all outcomes: fixed here
  • A2A agent card (unknown agent 404, ACL 403, 500, upstream 502, 200): fixed here
  • /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource[/mcp] (dormant 404, 405, 200): fixed here
  • Unrouted-path 404 (the passthrough match_route miss, including unregistered siblings such as /v1/responses/{id}, /v1/images/variations, /v1/models/{id}): fixed here
  • Router 405 for a known path with a method it doesn't serve: fixed here
  • /livez, /readyz: deliberately no line (platform probes)
  • Auth denial on /v1/realtime (subprotocol/header auth): already logged in its pre-upgrade error arm
  • Auth denial on passthrough routes (gateway_key / header_key / anonymous-key lifecycle): already logged in the route's error arm
  • Body over the size cap (Content-Length short-circuit and the extractor cap), malformed JSON, malformed :param path segment: already logged via reject_before_dispatch
  • Model ACL / allowed_models 403, source-CIDR 403, rate limit / quota / budget 429, unknown or disabled model 404, input-guardrail block on chat, completions, messages, count_tokens, responses, embeddings, rerank, images (generations, edits) and audio (speech, transcriptions, translations): already logged in each handler's dispatch error arm
  • /v1/videos* 404 / ACL / 429 / not-ready: already logged (Telemetry::finish and the GET handlers' tails)
  • Files / batches / fine-tuning target-resolution 403/400, quota, guardrail, missing file ids: already logged (jobs::finish)
  • /v1/realtime pre-upgrade rejections (bad upgrade 400/426/405, 404/403/CIDR/429): already logged
  • /mcp dispatch rejections (quota, guardrail, unknown scoped server): already logged (the serve wrapper)
  • /a2a/:agent unknown agent 404, ACL 403, 413/400, guardrail, quota 429: already logged
  • Passthrough route dispatch errors (source CIDR, guardrail, upstream): already logged
  • URL rewrite, host dispatch, request-id and MCP OAuth challenge middlewares: they never short-circuit, so nothing to log

Tests, both against a real gateway binary:

  • access-log-auth-denial-e2e sends 8 credential shapes to each of 15 proxy surfaces (chat, completions, messages, count_tokens, responses, embeddings, rerank, images, audio, videos, models, files, batches, /mcp, /a2a). The shapes are: none, unknown bearer, unknown x-api-key, disabled key, expired key, expired JWT, a JWT with no bound key, and a JWT missing a required scope. Each request must produce exactly one line with the status the caller got (401, or 403 for the scope case), the right method and path, no api_key_id, and no trace of the credential.
  • access-log-unrouted-e2e covers the model list, an unknown agent's card, both discovery documents, two unrouted paths, and three wrong-method requests. The 405 responses must still carry Allow. Each request must produce exactly one line with the right status, method and path. /livez and /readyz must produce none.
  • Both tests run a second gateway with access_log: false, which must write no line at all.
  • Removing any one of the six emit sites turns its case red.

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The AuthenticatedKey extractor short-circuits ahead of the handler, which is
where every access-log line is written, so a 401 (no credential, unknown key,
disabled or expired key, any JWT rejection) and a JWT 403 left no access-log
record. The extractor now writes the line itself on every rejection, gated by
observability.access_log like every other line. It carries method, path,
status, latency, request id and the error class; no key id and never the
presented credential.

aisix_auth_decisions_total and the aisix::auth denial lines are unchanged.
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Authentication denials handled by AuthenticatedKey now produce an access-log record before the rejection is returned. The changes update route logging guidance and add end-to-end tests for denial responses and access-log settings.

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Authentication denial logging

Layer / File(s) Summary
Record authentication denials
crates/aisix-proxy/src/auth.rs, crates/aisix-proxy/src/mcp.rs, crates/aisix-proxy/AGENTS.md
AuthenticatedKey times authentication and emits a denial access-log record before returning an error. The record includes request details and leaves credential and identity fields unset. Comments clarify that routes without the extractor must log their own authentication errors.
Exercise denial responses and access-log settings
tests/e2e/src/cases/access-log-auth-denial-e2e.test.ts
The end-to-end test sends eight credential cases across 15 proxy surfaces. It checks denial statuses and request IDs, then verifies access-log output with logging enabled and disabled.

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Change: Bug fix

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  participant Request
  participant AuthenticatedKey
  participant emit_denial_access_log
  Request->>AuthenticatedKey: Provide request for authentication
  AuthenticatedKey->>emit_denial_access_log: Record denial details on authentication error
  emit_denial_access_log-->>AuthenticatedKey: Write access-log record
  AuthenticatedKey-->>Request: Return authentication rejection
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The access-log serializer and the authentication-denial path promise these fields, but no inspected test asserts all of them on this extractor path. The new test can therefore pass if the denial record has the wrong method, raw path, error_kind, or error message. This leaves a material regression in the behavior the test is intended to protect undetected.

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Review comment at @tests/e2e/src/cases/access-log-auth-denial-e2e.test.ts around
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Extend the denial assertions in the test “each denial is exactly one line with
its status and without the credential” to verify the expected method, raw path,
error_kind, and error message for each sent request. Reuse the request and
denial expectations available in the test setup, while preserving the existing
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- Around line 171-188: Extend the denial assertions in the test “each denial is
exactly one line with its status and without the credential” to verify the
expected method, raw path, error_kind, and error message for each sent request.
Reuse the request and denial expectations available in the test setup, while
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GET /v1/models, the A2A agent card, the OAuth protected-resource documents,
the unrouted-path 404 and the router's automatic 405 answered the caller
without ever writing an access-log line. Each now writes one with the
fields known at that point (method, raw path, status, latency, request id,
and the key id where the route authenticated). /livez and /readyz still
write none: they are platform probes, not client traffic. The 405 keeps
axum's Allow header.
@jarvis9443 jarvis9443 changed the title fix(auth): write an access-log line for every authentication denial fix(proxy): write an access-log line for every request the proxy surface answers Sep 29, 2026
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@coderabbitai Good call on the auth-denial nitpick. d2f89d0 makes both new e2e files assert the method and raw path on every line, alongside the count, status and credential checks. I left error_kind and the message text out on purpose: the tests only assert what a client can observe, and those values are internal classification strings.

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@jarvis9443, I verified d2f89d03. Both e2e files now check the method and raw path for each expected access-log line. I agree with leaving error_kind and the message text out of these tests because they are internal classification strings. This addresses my comment.


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