Evaluate for Possible New Plugin - Logging data to third party servers using JavaScript policy

[davidwallen]

The httpClient object in a JavaScript policy is used to log the data to a log server. This means that the process of logging actually takes place during request/response processing. This approach is counterproductive because it adds to the processing time, thereby increasing overall latencies.

Use the Message Logging policy to transfer/log data to Log servers or third party log management services such as Sumo Logic, Splunk, Loggly, etc.
The biggest advantage of the Message Logging policy is that it can be defined in the Post Client Flow, which gets executed after the response is sent back to the requesting client app.
Having this policy defined in Post Client flow helps separate the logging activity and the request/response processing thereby avoiding latencies.
If there is a specific requirement or a reason to do logging via javascript (not the Post Client flow option mentioned above), then it needs to be done asynchronously i.e if you are using a httpclient object, you would need to ensure that the javascript does -not- implement “waitForComplete”