Module exometer_report_logger

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Exometer report collector and logger.

Behaviours: gen_server.

This module defines the exometer_report_logger behaviour.
Required callback functions: logger_handle_data/2.

Description

This module implements a behavior for collecting reporting data and handling it (logging to disk or ets, printing to tty, etc.)

The logger has built-in support for receiving input via UDP, TCP or internal Erlang messaging, as well as a plugin API for custom input handling. Correspondingly, it has support for output to TTY or ets, as well as a plugin API for custom output.

An example of how the logger can be used can be found in test/exometer_test_udp_reporter.erl, which implements a UDP-based reporter as well as an input plugin and an output plugin. This reporter is used by test/exometer_report_SUITE.erl.

Loggers can be combined, e.g. by creating one logger that receives Erlang messages, and other loggers that receive from different sources, prefix their reports and pass them on to the first logger.

Input plugins

An input plugin is initiated by Module:logger_init_input(State), where State is whatever was given as a state option (default: undefined). The function must create a process and return {ok, Pid}. Pid is responsible for setting up whatever input channel is desired, and passes on incoming data to the logger via Erlang messages {plugin, Pid, Data}.

Output Chaining

Each incoming data item is passed through the list of output operators. Each output operator is able to modify the data (the tty and ets operators leave the data unchanged). Output plugins receive the data in Module:logger_handle_data(Data, State), which must return {NewData, NewState}. The state is private to the plugin, while NewData will be passed along to the next output operator.

Flow control

The logger will handle flow control automatically for udp and tcp inputs. If {active,once} or {active, false}, the logger will trigger {active, once} each time it has handled an incoming message. If {active, N}, it will "refill" the port each time it receives an indication that it has become passive.

Input plugins create a process in Module:logger_init_input/1. This process can mimick the behavior of Erlang ports by sending a {plugin_passive, Pid} message to the logger. The logger will reply with a message, {plugin_active, N}, where N is the value given by the active option.

Data Types

logger_info()


logger_info() = {id, any()} | {input, proplist()} | {output, proplist()}

proplist()


proplist() = [{atom(), any()}]

Function Index

info/0	List active logger instances.
info/1	Lists the settings of a given logger instance.
new/1	Create a new logger instance.
start_link/1	Start function for logger instance.

Function Details

info/0


info() -> [{pid(), [logger_info()]}]

List active logger instances.

This function lists the instances started via new/1, along with their respective settings as nested property lists.

info/1


info(P::pid()) -> [logger_info()]

Lists the settings of a given logger instance.

new/1


new(Options::[{id, any()} | {input, list()} | {output, list()}]) -> {ok, pid()}

Create a new logger instance.

This function creates a logger process with the given input and output parameters.

{id, ID} is mainly for documentation and simplifying identification of instances returned by info/0.
{input, PropList} specifies what the logger listens to. Only the first input entry is regarded, but the option is mandatory.
{output, PropList} specifies what the logger should to with received data. Multiple output entries are allowed, and they will be processed in the order given.

Valid input options:

{mode, udp | tcp | internal | plugin} defines the protocol
{active, false | true | once | N} provides flow control. Default: true.
(mode-specific options)

Valid output options:

{mode, tty | ets | plugin | internal} defines output types
(output-specific options)

Mode-specific options, udp:

{port, integer()} - UDP port number
{options, list()} - Options to pass to gen_udp:open/2

Mode-specific options, tcp:

{port, integer()} - TCP port number
{options, list()} - Options to pass to gen_tcp:listen/2

Mode-specific options, tty:

{prefix, iolist()} - Prefix string inserted before the data, which is printed as-is (note that any delimiter would need to be part of the prefix)

Mode-specific options, ets:

{table, ets:table()} - Ets table identifier. If not specified, an ordered-set table will be created by the logger process. The incoming data will be inserted as {os:timestamp(), Data}.

Mode-specific options, internal:

{process, PidOrRegname} specifies another logger instance, which is to receive data from this logger (if used in output), or which is allowed to send to this logger (if used in input). If no process is given for input, any process can send data (on the form {exometer_report_logger, Pid, Data}) to this logger.

Mode-specific options, plugin:

{module, Module} - name of callback module (behaviour: exometer_report_logger)
{state, State} - Passed as initial argument to Module:logger_init_input/1 or Module:logger_init_output/1, depending on whether the plugin is specified as input or output.

start_link/1


start_link(Options::proplist()) -> {ok, pid()}

Start function for logger instance.

This function is the start function eventually called as a result from new/1, but whereas new/1 creates a supervised instance, this function simply creates the process. It would normally not be used directly.

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