Log Collector Service

The LogCollectorService is an example NodeJs application that joins a room and writes all the Experiment Log Events (0x2) in that Room to disk.

The sample is located in the Node/samples/logcollectorservice directory.

Use Case

The Log Collector Service can be used to automatically collect data from self-directed experiments.

To do this, an experimentor would create a build that automatically joined a pre-defined Room. Additionally, the Log Collector Service would be started on a server and configured to join the same Room.

As participants ran their builds and completed the experiment, they would all join the same room and forward their events to the LogCollector running in the Log Collector Service, which would write those events to disk on the server.

Questionnaire Scene

A good way to try the Log Collector Service is to use the Questionnaire Sample (Samples/Single/Questionnaire).

Add the Join Room Component to the NetworkScene, and set the Room GUID to the same one as in the logcollectorservice app.

Be sure to generate a new GUID to avoid collisions with others potentially trying the same demonstration.

Then, start and stop the Questionnaire scene, submitting the Questionnaire a few times each run.

In the logcollectorservice directory, a number of log files should be created, with the Ids that the Peer took on each time it started.

Configuration

The logcollectorservice application is configured by changing the source code of app.js. The two variables that are likely to change are the log event type, and the room GUID.