ember-logging-amplitude

ember-logging-amplitude

This addon provides a logging consumer for the ember-logging-service addon. The consumer handles sending user events to Amplitude.

Configuration

First you must install the ember-logging-service addon and follow instructions to add application and user context callbacks.

ember install ember-logging-service
ember install ember-logging-amplitude

There are two parts to configuring the Amplitude logging consumer. Setting up the credentials and setting up the application-specific information to send to Amplitude.

Configuring credentials

Configuring the ember-logging-amplitude addon is done from the config/environment.js file.

You must set enabled = true for each environment you wish to monitor (both in the ember-logging-service and in the ember-logging-amplitude modules).

You also need to specify an array of tag names to send to the Amplitude service. For example, to listen to any events of type user, interaction, or navigation:

ENV['ember-logging-service'] = {
  enabled: true
  .....
}

ENV['ember-logging-amplitude'] = {
  enabled: true,
  apiKey: your-amplitude-api-key-goes-here
  amplitudeConfig: {}
  tags: ['user', 'interaction', 'navigation']
}

The additional amplitudeConfig values can be found under the "Configuration Options" section of the JavaScript SDK

#Basic usage

Triggering event follows the usage for the logging service. Assuming you had configured the Amplitude logging consumer to listen for the 'navigation' tag at the default 'info' severity level, you could trigger an event to be sent to Amplitude as:

import Ember from 'ember';

export default Ember.Component.extend({
  logger: Ember.inject.service(),

  trackNavigationEvent(navItem) {
    let logger = this.get('logger');
    logger.info(logger.tags.navigation, navItem);
  }
})

Configuring application-specific information

Amplitude requires information regarding the context of the event and the current application user at the time of the event. This is information that you would set in the application and user context callbacks in the ember-logging-service. Because that contextual data is set up by your application, ember-logging-amplitude passes the event context to your custom callback to determine what values map to the values expected by Amplitude.

When you install the ember-logging-amplitude addon, an application instance initializer is created for you at app/instance-initializers/register-amplitude-logging-consumer.js.

This file sets up a sample callback to the logging consumer and defines the values that need to be populated for integration with Amplitude. This includes the application version and the user id. Additionally you can set an object of extra user properties to track for the current user. You can fill in the values directly here or utilize the event context passed to the function to dynamically determine what to send. This callback is executed each time an event is sent to Amplitude.

Developing for ember-logging-amplitude

This README outlines the details of collaborating on this Ember addon.

Installation

• git clone [e-mail]:acquia/ember-logging-amplitude.git this repository
• cd ember-logging-amplitude
• npm install
• bower install

Running

• ember serve
• Visit your app at http://localhost:4200.

Running Tests

• npm test (Runs ember try:each to test your addon against multiple Ember versions)
• ember test
• ember test --server

Building

• ember build

For more information on using ember-cli, visit https://ember-cli.com/.