hypertrace-logger

Enable hypertrace logs to be sent over a hyperdht connection and stored on a server. This module handles that hyperdht connection.

It includes two classes, Server and Client, which can be used in both ends. The server can also just be run by npm run server. The Client is to be used in e.g. keet-desktop to start traces from there.

The logs are stored in .log files. Those log files can be read by promtail, and then stored.

How to run the server

Run the server:

$ npm run server
server started on 17ba5b10a5abba269e16d740c1eb76ba215c05a697c7e37c996abfcc48ba82f3

The public key 17ba... that is printed, can be used on the client-side to connect to this.

There is a public+secret key pair generated by hypertrace-logger that's stored in keys.dat. This can also be updated if you have some specific key you need to use.

How to use the modules

Client

Usage

const DHT = require('hyperdht')
const hypertraceLogger = require('hypertrace-logger')
const { Client } = hypertraceLogger

const serverPublicKey = '17ba....'

const client = new Client()
client.start({
  createSocket: () => { // Required
    const node = new DHT()
    return node.connect(Buffer.from(serverPublicKey, 'hex'))
  },
  ignoreClassNames: ['Foo', 'Bar'], // Optional
  getInitialsProps: async () => { // Optional
    const userId = 'probablyLoadedFromSomeStorage'
    return {
      userId
    }
  }
})

new Client()

Creates Client

async .start({ createSocket, canSocketReconnect = () => true, ignoreClassNames = [], getInitialProps = () => {}})

Starts the tracing. First start setTracerFunction for hypertrace and then creates socket with the passed createSocket function.

• createSocket. Function that returns a socket
• canSocketReconnect (optional). Whether or not the socket is ok to reconnect. If your app is closing you'd want to return false
• ignoreClassNames (optional). A list of classNames that should be ignored
• getInitialProps (optional). Function that returns a map of properties that should be added to each message

Handles reconnections and buffers messages that might otherwise have been lost.

.addTrace(params)

After calling .start, tracing will start, so most times there is no need to call .addTrace. But if needed, then use this to add a trace message.

Server

Usage

const DHT = require('hyperdht')
const hypertraceLogger = require('hypertrace-logger')

const keyPair = DHT.keyPair()
const server = new Server({ folder: './' })
await server.listen(keyPair)
console.log(`server started on ${keyPair.publicKey.toString('hex')}`)

new Server({ folder })

Starts a server. Stores log files to folder

async .listen(keyPair)

Starts the dht server on the given keyPair