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Logging within CI 4 - kristianlake - 07-18-2020
Hi all,
I am looking to begin logging the data inside my CI 4 application.
I am expecting the number of users to my site to be significant enough to worry about the best way to log and store this data.
I have googled about to see if i could find some best practises and get some tips on where to begin with this but couldnt find anything obvious.
What would be the best practises for logging?
Would i let CI Logging handle its own logging of errors to a log file?
How would i handle logging for things such as failed login attempts? Would that be logged to a database instead? (say if I wanted to introduce a policy to lock accounts out if so many failures were detected)
How would you handle reporting of these? would you send an email every day/week with the logs? would you build a CRUD admin section inside your app to view the logs?
Any good links to resources , best practices , patterns and methodologies would be greatly appreciated too!
RE: Logging within CI 4 - jreklund - 07-18-2020
Depends on what you want to do with the data.
Just read it yourself (application errors):
Log to file
Look something specific up (user changed password):
Log to database
Look up temporary data (X post in Y minutes etc - anti spam):
Log to database (memory table)
RE: Logging within CI 4 - kristianlake - 07-18-2020
Thanks for your reply
. I will probably be doing all three.