Happy Logger

A tool to log data http-posted from a device to database, view and filter the messages, export to database. Can use sqlite or mysql, yet adding any django-compatible database should be trivial.

Example query to create the message

 curl -d "Message text" -H 'X-Logger-Hostname: Whatever' -H 'X-Logger-Token: secret' -X POST http://happylogger

Accepted HTTP headers

• X-Logger-Hostname - hostname, that is saved to database. If not provided, IP address is used
• X-Logger-Token - security token, to prevent unauthorized messages. Defaults to secret. Can be set in environment with LOGGER_SECURITY_TOKEN variable.

Configuration

To configure, set environment variables

• LOGGER_SECURITY_TOKEN - security token value
• MYSQL_HOST - mysql database host, if not set sqlite is used
• MYSQL_PORT - mysql database port, default is 3306
• MYSQL_DB - mysql database port, default is happy_log
• MYSQL_USER - mysql database port, default is happy_log
• MYSQL_PASSWORD - mysql database port, default is happy_log
• DJANGO_ALLOWED_HOSTS - set this to comma-separated list of hostnames to run on, like domain1.com,domain2.com
• DJANGO_SECURITY_KEY - Django security key, set this to random string in production. See https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/settings/#secret-key
• DJANGO_STATIC_URL - Django static URL, default '/static/'
• DJANGO_STATIC_ROOT - Django static root directory, defaults to static in project directory

Initial setup

Set environment variables mentioned above

Apply migrations to create database tables

python manage.py migrate

Compile translation messages, to enable localized interface

python manage.py compilemessages

Collect static files to be served by the web server

python manage.py collectstatic

Create first admin user with

python manage.py createsuperuser

Do setup applicable for your web server to run wsgi application, located in logger/logger/wsgi.py

Configure your web server so that static directory is available under /static/.