How it is possible to get list of user that are using REST API?

[Tatiana Jancusova]

Hello, 

we would like to know, which user connect to JIRA via REST API, is it possible?

JIRA Software v7.2.7

I am looking forward to your reply.

Best regards,
Tatiana

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]]

If you have the access logs enabled, you can analyze it to find the users making a REST request. Another option is to use some monitoring tools to monitor the incoming requests.

[Tatiana Jancusova]

Hi,

could you be more specific?

In the access logs I found something like this:

"GET /rest/gadgets/1.0/g/messagebundle/en_UK/gadget.common%2Cgadget.project HTTP/1.1" 200 2892 1 "-" "Apache-HttpClient/4.4.1 (Java/1.8.0_102)" "-"
 "GET /rest/gadgets/1.0/g/messagebundle/und/gadget.quicklinks HTTP/1.1" 200 501 1 "-" "Apache-HttpClient/4.4.1 (Java/1.8.0_102)" "-"
"GET /rest/gadgets/1.0/g/messagebundle/en_UK/gadget.quicklinks HTTP/1.1" 200 501 1 "-" "Apache-HttpClient/4.4.1 (Java/1.8.0_102)" "-"
 "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 11879 198 "-" "F5-BIGIP" "-"

Regards,
Tatiana

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]]

First, you need to make sure the username is logged. See the Tomcat access logging documentation for help. Make sure you are checking the version used by your JIRA.

Once the user name is logged, you can search for urls starting with /rest and identify the users. You might want to strip out the ones specific to gadgets or other known services but it is up to you.

Also see https://confluence.atlassian.com/enterprise/jira-access-log-analyzer-687025035.html