add a settings flag for writing all external logs to disk

awx/main/utils/handlers.py

@@ -294,6 +294,18 @@ class AWXProxyHandler(logging.Handler):
         super(AWXProxyHandler, self).__init__(**kwargs)
         self._handler = None
         self._old_kwargs = {}
+        self._auditor = logging.handlers.RotatingFileHandler(
+            filename='/var/log/tower/external.log',
+            maxBytes=1024 * 1024 * 50, # 50 MB
+            backupCount=5,
+        )
+
+        class WritableLogstashFormatter(LogstashFormatter):
+            @classmethod
+            def serialize(cls, message):
+                return json.dumps(message)
+
+        self._auditor.setFormatter(WritableLogstashFormatter())
 
     def get_handler_class(self, protocol):
         return HANDLER_MAPPING.get(protocol, AWXNullHandler)
@@ -327,6 +339,9 @@ class AWXProxyHandler(logging.Handler):
     def emit(self, record):
         if AWXProxyHandler.thread_local.enabled:
             actual_handler = self.get_handler()
+            if settings.LOG_AGGREGATOR_AUDIT:
+                self._auditor.setLevel(settings.LOG_AGGREGATOR_LEVEL)
+                self._auditor.emit(record)
             return actual_handler.emit(record)
 
     def perform_test(self, custom_settings):