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Logging Events

Make sure you have the dataidea package installed. You can install as

Install DATAIDEA
pip install -U dataidea

Setup your api key in a dot env file with a name like DATAIDEA_API_KEY

Read the api key

Get API Key
import os 

api_key = os.getenv('DATAIDEA_API_KEY')

Import event_log method.

We use this method for logging our data. It can be imported directly as:

Import event_log directly
from dataidea import event_log

It can also be imported via its utils module

import event_log via utils module
from dataidea.utils.logging import event_log

Log an event

Log an event
event_log({
        'api_key': api_key,
        'project_name': 'Test Project',
        'user_id': '1234567890', # optional
        'message': 'This is a test message',
        'level': 'info',
        'metadata': {'test': 'test'} # optional
    })