[Kimchi-devel] [RFC] [Wok] Feature: User Activity Log

[Jose Ricardo Ziviani]

Will it be possible to create more complex queries such as 
?plugin=kimchi&user=root and time frames 
?plugin=kimchi&from=20160101&to=20160105

On 05-02-2016 18:51, Lucio Correia wrote:
> User Activity Log functionality
> -------------------------------
> Host admin wants to have access to all actions performed by Wok users,
> either through API, web user interface, with the option to download User
> Acitivity Log in a text file.
>
>
> REST API
> --------
> Only one API will be exposed:
> - GET /logs - Collection of log entries for all installed plugins.
> Examples of filtering:
> /logs?plugin=kimchi - All log entries for Kimchi plugin
> /logs?user=admin - All log entries from admin user
> /logs?request=PUT - All log entries relative to PUT requests
> /logs?date=20160110 - All Jan 10th's log entries
>
>
> Backend design
> --------------
> - Define activity texts for each currently implemented activity of all
> plugins
> - Implement method to retrieve the activity texts in Wok and all plugins
> - Log events to a JSON file in the host file system. Each user request
> received by Wok will generate an entry in the respective log file.
> Fields to be saved for each entry: plugin, datetime, user, request type
> (PUT, POST, GET, DELETE), activity text (i.e. "create guest 'vm-sample'")
> - Implement code for retrieving and filtering log events by the fields
> above
>
>
> Web User interface design
> -------------------------
> Create a new tab: "User Activity" - available only to Wok admins
> - Search fields to filter log events by installed plugin, date, user,
> and/or request type
> - Show search results in a table containing plugin, datetime, user,
> request type, activity text
> - User may sort the table by plugin, datetime, user or request type
> - Button for downloading current search results as a txt file
>
>

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Jose Ricardo Ziviani
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Software Engineer
Linux Technology Center - IBM