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Cube stores meta events rather than generating plaintext logs.

cube_request

Any requests sent to evaluators and collectors are logged as "cube_request" events. For example, when a client connects to the metric/get WebSocket endpoint:

{
  "type": "cube_request",
  "time": "2012-04-15T18:25:35.322Z",
  "data": {
    "ip": "127.0.0.1",
    "path" : "/1.0/metric/get",
    "method" : "WebSocket"
  }
}

Likewise, a client POSTing events to the collector:

{
  "type": "cube_request",
  "time": "2012-04-15T18:26:26.006Z",
  "data": {
    "ip": "127.0.0.1",
    "path" : "/1.0/event",
    "method" : "POST"
  }
}

cube_compute

Any metric computation requests sent to evaluators are logged as "cube_compute" events. The ms property records the number of milliseconds it took to compute the metric, which is useful for monitoring how well Cube is performing.

{
  "type": "cube_compute",
  "time": "2012-04-17T04:36:07.336Z",
  "data": {
    "expression" : "sum(random)",
    "ms" : 13
  }
}

If a compound metric is evaluated (such as sum(foo) + sum(bar)), the subexpressions are computed in parallel as unary metrics (sum(foo) and sum(bar)), and thus generates multiple compute events.