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0 pointsmarvinblum5y ago0 comments

I haven't worked with heroku yet, but if you can make an API request, yes. You can read about how that works here: https://docs.pirsch.io/api-sdks/api/

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fatsdomino0015y ago

Looks very interesting.

Yeah I mean, I'm just running a django site, so I imagine I could add a custom middleware that makes an API request on every page load. I guess it would have to try and see if the access token is expired first? and if so grab a new one then make the hit. Is that the recommended setup?

Would I be able to pass extra information to be included in the logs, like e.g. username?

Also, I know you have good privacy policies, but still sending this information through a request makes me nervous nevertheless, even though it's of course miles better than js-based solutions. But what are your thoughts on how possible is it for these requests to be intercepted and this logged data siphoned off by someone else?

marvinblumOP5y ago

> I guess it would have to try and see if the access token is expired first? and if so grab a new one then make the hit. Is that the recommended setup?

Exactly. The token expires after 15 minutes, so you need to check the response and issue a new token should it have expired. You can read our docs on how to do that or take a look at our Go SDK [0] and re-implement it in Python. Unfortunately, I don't have enough time to provide one right now.

> Would I be able to pass extra information to be included in the logs, like e.g. username?

That's not possible right now, but you will be able to send custom events in the future.

> But what are your thoughts on how possible is it for these requests to be intercepted and this logged data siphoned off by someone else?

Highly unlikely. All traffic is SSL encrypted, the internal communication of our server cluster is encrypted, the database, ... I mean, software can always be hacked, but I spend a lot of my time on infrastructure and security.

[0] https://github.com/pirsch-analytics/pirsch-go-sdk/blob/maste...

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