Database

Logflare


Logflare is a centralized web-based log management solution to easily access Cloudflare, Vercel & Elixir logs.

The Logflare Wrapper allows you to read data from Logflare endpoints within your Postgres database.

Preparation

Before you get started, make sure the wrappers extension is installed on your database:


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create extension if not exists wrappers with schema extensions;

and then create the foreign data wrapper:


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create foreign data wrapper logflare_wrapper
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handler logflare_fdw_handler
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validator logflare_fdw_validator;

Secure your credentials (optional)

By default, Postgres stores FDW credentials inide pg_catalog.pg_foreign_server in plain text. Anyone with access to this table will be able to view these credentials. Wrappers is designed to work with Vault, which provides an additional level of security for storing credentials. We recommend using Vault to store your credentials.


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-- Save your Logflare API key in Vault and retrieve the `key_id`
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insert into vault.secrets (name, secret)
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values (
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'logflare',
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'YOUR_SECRET'
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)
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returning key_id;

Connecting to Logflare

We need to provide Postgres with the credentials to connect to Logflare, and any additional options. We can do this using the create server command:


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create server logflare_server
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foreign data wrapper logflare_wrapper
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options (
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api_key_id '<key_ID>' -- The Key ID from above.
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);

Creating Foreign Tables

The Logflare Wrapper supports data reads from Logflare's endpoints.

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For example:


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create foreign table my_logflare_table (
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id bigint,
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name text,
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_result text
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)
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server logflare_server
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options (
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endpoint '9dd9a6f6-8e9b-4fa4-b682-4f2f5cd99da3'
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);

Meta column

You can define a specific meta column _result (data type: text) in the foreign table. It will store the whole result record in JSON string format, so you can extract any fields from it using Postgres JSON queries like _result::json->>'foo'. See more examples below.

Query parameters

Logflare endpoint query parameters can be passed using specific parameter columns like _param_foo and _param_bar. See more examples below.

Foreign table options

The full list of foreign table options are below:

  • endpoint - Logflare endpoint UUID or name, required.

Query Pushdown Support

This FDW doesn't support query pushdown.

Examples

Some examples on how to use Logflare foreign tables.

Basic example

Assume the Logflare endpoint response is like below:


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[
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{
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"id": 123,
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"name": "foo"
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}
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]

Then we can define a foreign table like this:


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create foreign table people (
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id bigint,
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name text,
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_result text
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)
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server logflare_server
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options (
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endpoint '9dd9a6f6-8e9b-4fa4-b682-4f2f5cd99da3'
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);
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select * from people;

Query parameters example

Suppose the Logflare endpoint accepts 3 parameters:

  1. org_id
  2. iso_timestamp_start
  3. iso_timestamp_end

And its response is like below:


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[
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{
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"db_size": "large",
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"org_id": "123",
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"runtime_hours": 21.95,
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"runtime_minutes": 1317
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}
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]

We can define a foreign table and parameter columns like this:


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create foreign table runtime_hours (
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db_size text,
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org_id text,
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runtime_hours numeric,
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runtime_minutes bigint,
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_param_org_id bigint,
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_param_iso_timestamp_start text,
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_param_iso_timestamp_end text,
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_result text
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)
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server logflare_server
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options (
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endpoint 'my.custom.endpoint'
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);

and query it with parameters like this:


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select
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db_size,
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org_id,
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runtime_hours,
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runtime_minutes
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from
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runtime_hours
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where _param_org_id = 123
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and _param_iso_timestamp_start = '2023-07-01 02:03:04'
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and _param_iso_timestamp_end = '2023-07-02';