influx-express

Influx Express Middleware

This repository contains express middleware for logging request and response metrics to InfluxDB.

Usage

First add influx-express to your project:

$ cd /path/to/node/project
$ npm install --save influx-express

To enable the express logging middleware do the following:

var express = require('express')
var influxExpress = require('influx-express')
var app = express()
 
app.use(influxExpress())
 
app.get('/', function (req, res) {
  res.send('Hello World!')
})
 
app.listen(3000)

Changing the client defaults

var influxOpts = {
  protocol: "https",
  host: "fourbyfour-923ah8ar.influxcloud.net",
  port: 8086,
  database: "mydb",
  username: "myuser",
  password: "mypass",
  batchSize: 10,
}
 
app.use(influxExpress(influxOpts))

Data

Currently this example implementation only gathers the following data. If you have some data you would like to see gathered by this plugin please open an issue.

database: 'node'
  measurement: 'requests'
  tags:
    - path: req.path
    - host: req.hostname
    - verb: req.method
    - status: req.statusCode
  fields:
    - responseTime: req.startTime - res.finishTime