Introduction to SOAP API Logging and Monitoring

SOAP APIs are widely used for their robustness and standardized protocol for exchanging information in a distributed environment. Logging and monitoring SOAP API calls are crucial for performance tracking, debugging, and ensuring security. Below are three diverse examples that illustrate effective logging and monitoring strategies for SOAP APIs.

1. Basic Request and Response Logging

In a typical e-commerce platform, monitoring the interaction between the front-end application and the backend SOAP API is essential for diagnosing issues. This example demonstrates how to log both the request and response of a SOAP API call for transaction processing.

To implement logging, consider adding middleware that captures both the outgoing request and incoming response. This logging can be stored in a file or a logging service.

```python
import logging
import requests

Set up logging configuration

logging.basicConfig(filename=’soap_api.log’, level=logging.INFO)

SOAP API endpoint

url = ‘https://api.example.com/transaction’

Sample SOAP request

headers = {’Content-Type’: ‘text/xml’}
body = ‘’’