metric-log

Log metrics in a simple key=value format for easy parsing. Metric-log uses l2met conventions which are used by Heroku.

Install

npm install --save metric-log

Primary Functions

Here are the most important features:

• metric() measure#request=1
• metric.profile() measure#my-api-call=203ms //profile duration
• metric.context() - (set a parent context which logs can inherit from)

L2met functions

• metric.measure() measure#db.latency=530ms //similar to metric()
• metric.count() count#action.home_page.login.success=1
• metric.sample() sample#appName.dyno1.load_avg_5=234mb
• metric.event() event#title=deploy event#starttime=23456432

API

metric(measure, value)

var metric = require("metric-log");

metric("request", 1);
  // measure#request=1

metric(measure, value, units)

var metric = require("metric-log");

metric("response_time", 40, "ms");
  // measure#response_time=40ms

metric(measure, value, units, obj)

var metric = require("metric-log");

metric("response_time", 40, "ms", {lib:'my-lib'});
  // measure#response_time=40ms lib=my-lib

metric(obj)

Complex objects can also be passed. Any nested objects/arrays will be converted to JSON.

var metric = require("metric-log");

metric({host: "my.host.com", service: "requests", metric: 5, tags: ["requests", "testing"]});
  // host=my.host.com service=requests metric=5 tags="[\"requests\",\"testing\"]"

metric.context(obj)

You can also setup a default context to be applied to each metric.

var metric = require("metric-log").context({host: "my.host.com"});

metric("response_time", 12, "ms");
  // host=my.host.com measure#response_time=12ms

metric.context(obj).use(parentContext)

You can also inherit from parent contexts

var express = require("express")
  , metric = require("metric-log")
  , parent = metric.context({host: "my.host.com"});

var app = express();

app.use(function(req, res, next) {
  req.metric = metric.context({request_id: req.get("x-request-id")}).use(parent);
});

app.get("/", function(req, res) {
  req.metric("home_page", 1); //this use case should probably use metric.count()
  // host=my.host.com request_id=12345 measure#home_page=1
});

metric.profile(id[, obj])

Helper function to profile processes like calling an api or database.

var metric = require('metric');

var end = metric.profile('my-api-call');

api('id', function(err, result){
  end();
  // measure#my-api-call=203ms
});

You can also pass some metrics as a second parameter

var end = metric.profile('my-api-call', {at:"info", lib:"my-lib"});

api('id', function(err, result){
  end({err:err});
  // measure#my-api-call=203ms at=info lib=my-lib err=null
});

metric.measure(metric, value[, units, obj])

Only first 2 parameters are required.

Useful for measuring data like latency.

var metric = require("metric-log");

metric.measure("response_time", 20);
  // measure#response_time=20

metric.measure("response_time", 40, "ms", {lib:'my-lib'});
  // measure#response_time=40ms lib=my-lib

metric.count(metric[, value, obj])

Only first parameter is required.

Useful for counting business metrics or similar data.

var metric = require("metric-log");

metric.count("action.login.success");
  // count#action.login.success=1

metric.count("action.login.failure", 5, {at:'home-page'});
  // count#action.login.failure=5 at=home-page

metric.sample(metric, value[, units, obj])

Useful for sampling data like memory usage.

var metric = require("metric-log");

metric.sample("home.dyno1.load_avg_5", 232, "mb", {lib: 'home-app'});
  // sample#home.dyno1.load_avg_5=232mb lib=home-app

metric.event(metric, value[, obj])

Useful for logging infrequent or one-off events like deploys.

var metric = require("metric-log");

metric.event("title", "deploy", {"event#start_time": 1234567890, source: "dyno5"});
  // event#title=deploy event#start_time=1234567890 source=dyno5

Tests

npm test

Benchmarks

These were some benchmarks run on my MacBook Pro.

$ npm run-script bench

․metric(measure, value) 
   885739.5925597874 metrics/sec
․metric(measure, value, units) 
   787401.5748031496 metrics/sec
․metric(obj) 
   1901140.6844106463 metrics/sec
․metric(deepObj) 
   344589.9379738112 metrics/sec
․context(measure, value) 
   372023.8095238095 metrics/sec
․context(measure, value, units) 
   318066.15776081424 metrics/sec
․context(obj) 
   365363.5367190354 metrics/sec
․context(deepObj) 
   195694.71624266144 metrics/sec


  8 tests complete (20 seconds)