OpenLog - An easy way to aggregate client side logging

OpenLog helps you track down client side javascript errors that you can never seem to replicate on your machine. Now errors and stack traces that happen on any machine will be readily available to you.
###Tiny overhead, client-side plugin is < 1kb gzipped!!!

Installation

#####Simple

1. Download the latest release from the Github Releases

2. Include the dist/capture.min.js file on any page you want to capture the errors and logs for

   <script src="path/to/capture.min.js" type="text/javascript" language="javascript"></script>

3. Upload the entire release directory to your server and from the root OpenLog directory run

   npm install
   node server/server.js

4. Access your instance of OpenLog at http://your-domain.here:4783, the default login credentials are

   username: openlog
   password: password

5. That's it... No, seriously, that is it :)

#####Advanced

1. Download the latest release from the Github Releases

2. You can customise a few parts of OpenLog by modifying the config.inc.json in the root OpenLog directory. You can change the user and password values. As well as changing the port that OpenLog runs on.

3. Once you have modified those values you can build you own version of OpenLog by running these commands in the root OpenLog directory

   npm install -g grunt-cli
   npm install
   grunt build

4. You can now include the dist/capture.min.js file on any page you want to capture the errors and logs for

    <script src="path/to/capture.min.js" type="text/javascript" language="javascript"></script>

5. Upload the entire OpenLog directory (leave behind node_modules) to your server and from the root OpenLog directory run

   npm install -g grunt-cli
   npm install
   grunt build
   node  server/server.js

Usage

If you are already logging using console.log, console.info, console.warn and console.error then OpenLog requires no extra work at all. It will capture errors globally on your page and listen to calls to the above console functions.

If you aren't currently logging using those functions you can either start logging with those functions, or call the OpenLog functions which are.
Log.info(arguments), Log.warn(arguments), Log.error(arguments). Log is a globally defined object

If you don't want to capture certain logging types you simply add a data-capture parameter to the script tag that loaded the capture.min.js file and set it to be the types of logs you wish to capture. For instance if you only want error logs data-capture="error", or if you want error and warning logs data-capture="warn error".

If your server is not runinng in the expected / default location (the hostname the script is included on at port 4783) you can specify the logging URL by setting a data-log-url="<YOUR URL HERE>" attribute on the script tag that loaded the capture.min.js.

Updating OpenLog

Fancy, smooth, no data loss updating method coming soon :)

Contributing

All PR's and issues are welcomed with open arms, just fork make your magical new feature or bugfix and throw up a PR to master.

Requirements

node.js > 0.10 npm

Author

Samuel Attard - [email protected] - https://twitter.com/marshallofsound - https://www.samuelattard.com

License

OpenLog is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details