Logpot

Endpoint for logging incoming requests for analytical purposes

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All incoming requests are logged in logs/request-logs.txt

Requests for pages disallowed by robots.txt are recorded separately in logs/private-request-logs.txt, which includes additional details about the source of request

Prerequises

Dart SDK version: 3.7.0

Setup

Create ssl certificates and drop the pem files in folder certs/

Name them after following

• fullchain.pem
• privkey.pem

Create certificates

$ openssl req -x509 -newkey rsa:4096 -keyout certs/privkey.pem -out certs/fullchain.pem -days 365 -nodes -subj "/CN=localhost"

Build

For current machine

$ dart compile exe bin/main.dart -o build/main

Run

Run compiled

$ build/main

Server listening on:
  https://localhost:8081

Running with Dart

$ dart run

Server listening on:
  https://localhost:8081

Running with container

$ docker build . -t logpot
$ docker run -d -it -p 8081:8081 logpot

Server listening on:
  https://localhost:8081

You should see logging printed when visiting the site:

2021-05-06T15:47:04.620417  0:00:00.000158 GET     [200] /

Deploy

Run on this machine

$ ./deploy.sh

Then on the other machine you will receive the tarball

tar -xzvf logpot-source-XXX.tar.gz

Build the container there

docker build . -t logpot

You must create the logs and cache directory before running the container:

mkdir -p logs
mkdir -p cache
touch logs/request-logs.txt
touch logs/error-logs.txt
touch logs/private-request-logs.txt

Run

docker run \
  -v ${PWD}/logs:/app/logs \
  -v ${PWD}/cache:/app/cache \
  -d -p 8081:8081 logpot

The logs can be viewed at /logs