visitas

visitas.js

Simple Node.js dashboard for clf logs analysis, with logging capabilities.

Demo images

Requirements

• Node
• npm
• A Mongo connection

Installation

Simply install visitas via npm:

npm install --save visitas

And then edit the file app.js, registering visitas before any route:

var visitas = require('visitas');
app.use(visitas( {MONGO CONNECTION}, {OPTIONS} ));

Configuration

Mongo connection properties:

• host (required)
• port (required)
• db (required)
• user
• password

Options:

• log (boolean/object): visitas can also store the logs for the application. This property accepts false if no logging behaviour is required, or an object of options:
  • filename (string): Filename prefix for the logs [default access]
  • rotation (boolean): Use daily rotation [default false]
  • directory (string): Directory for the logs [default node_moduls\visitas\log]
• dashboard (boolean/string): Dashboard endpoint [default /visitas/]

Simple test

First, init the template project and install visitas

express visitas-test
cd visitas-test && npm install
npm install --save visitas

... and edit the file app.js registering visitas, before any route is registered:

var visitas = require('visitas');
app.use(visitas({
  host: 'localhost',
  port: 27017,
  db: 'visitas'
}));

Generate some logs:

node node_modules/visitas/generate-logs.js 

The script also admits parameters:

node path/to/generate-logs.js [number of logs, default 1000] [directory, default visitas/log]

Finally, start the application...

npm start

And browse to http://127.0.0.1:3000/visitas