MqttSqliteLogger 1.0

Simple Sqlite logger for MQTT Brokers.

mqttSqLite logger is a lightweight logger for MQTT brokers. It allows you to log all the published data under spectific topics and retrieve them for posterior data analysis.

The logger is totally managed over mqtt, so you can add, remove or query your topics without sql sintax.

Installation and run

The mqttSqLite logger is developed in python and use the peewee package as database provider and paho as mqtt client. In order to install the logger you need pip installed in your computer, and you only need to execute the following command:

pip install MqttSqliteLogger

Mqttsqlite support some comand line arguments that allows the the logger configuration according to your needs. The supported commands are the following:

Command	Default	Purpose
–host	localhost	mqtt broker host
–port	1883	mqtt broker port
–root	logger/	mqtt base topic for logger
–mgpassword	admin1234	management options password
–qrpassword	query1234	query options password

The logger can be started as:

mqttsqlite --host your_host --port your_port

Once you run the logger with the options, you can save them in next runs because the logger saves the options inside the database, so after configuration changed you can launch the mqttsqlite logger simply as:

mqttsqlite

Management commands

In order to add or remove the topics to the logger you can execute the following commands from any mqtt client.

The command structure is always the same, first the ROOT_TOPIC defined through the root option when launch the logger followed by the desired command. For instance based a valid command could be: logger/topic/add.

Included in the management commands payload should have included a json message with the following structure:

{
 "client" : "CLIENT_NAME_USED_TO_IDENTIFY_THE_RESPONSE"
 "password" : "YOUR_PASSWORD_FOR_MANAGEMENT_OPTIONS",
 "topic" : "TOPIC / ALL", #optional in some cases
 "option" : "COMMAND_OPTION", #optional in some cases
 }

The available commands related with topics managements are the following:

Command	purpose
ROOT_TOPIC/topic/add	add new topic to the logger
ROOT_TOPIC/topic/remove	remove topic from to the logger
ROOT_TOPIC/topic/list	remove topic from to the logger

The MqttSQlite logger will respond in a new topic called ROOT_TOPIC/response with a json with the following format:

{
 "client" : "CLIENT_NAME_USED_TO_IDENTIFY_THE_RESPONSE",
 "result" : "OK/KO",
 "error" : "MESSAGE WITH ERROR WHEN RESULT IS KO",
 "topics" : [
    "registered topic 1",
    "registered topic2",
    ...
    ]
 }

The commands related with logger content managements are the following:

Command	purpose
ROOT_TOPIC/log/delete/last	remove last entry por a topic (if included) or all topics
ROOT_TOPIC/log/delete/minut es	remove the log entries older than x minutes (included in options) for a topic (if included) or all
ROOT_TOPIC/log/delete/hours	remove the log entries older than x hours (included in options) for a topic (if included) or all
ROOT_TOPIC/log/delete/days	remove the log entries older than x days (included in options) for a topic (if included) or all

The MqttSqlite will respond in the topic ROOT_TOPIC/response with a json with the following structure:

{
 "client" : "CLIENT_NAME_USED_TO_IDENTIFY_THE_RESPONSE",
 "result" : "OK / KO"
 "error" : "MESSAGE WITH ERROR WHEN RESULT IS KO",
 }

Query Commands

The query options structure are similar to the previous one. First the TOPIC_ROOTfollowed by the desired command. In the payload should be included a json with the following structure:

{
 "client" : "CLIENT_NAME_USED_TO_IDENTIFY_THE_RESPONSE",
 "password" : "YOUR_PASSWORD_FOR_MANAGEMENT_OPTIONS",
 "topic" : "TOPIC"
 "option" : "COMMAND_OPTION" #optional in some cases
 }

The complete list of available query commands is the following:

Command	purpose
ROOT_TOPIC/log/query/last	get the last entry for a topic
ROOT_TOPIC/log/query/minutes	get the entries from the last x minutes
ROOT_TOPIC/log/query/hours	get the entries from the last x hours
ROOT_TOPIC/log/query/days	get the entries from the last x days

The MqttSqlite logger will respond in the topic ROOT_TOPIC/response with the required information with the following json format:

{
 "client" : "CLIENT_NAME_USED_TO_IDENTIFY_THE_RESPONSE",
 "topic" : "TOPIC",
 "result" : "OK/KO",
 "error" : "MESSAGE WITH ERROR WHEN RESULT IS KO",
 "values" : [
    {"timestamp" : "YYYY-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss" , "value":"string_with_value"},
    ....]
 }

Examples

Following is a python code using pahoo-mqtt client to communicate with the logger in order to add a new topic to be followed by the logger:

Add topic

import paho.mqtt.client as mqtt
import json

MANAGEMENT_PASSWORD = 'YOUR PASSWORD'
MQTT_HOST = 'YOUR HOST'
MQTT_PORT = 'YOUR PORT'
ROOT_TOPIC = 'YOUR ROOT LOGGER TOPIC by default logger/'
desired_topic = 'desired/new/topic'

payload = {}
payload['client'] = 'simple_example'
payload['topic'] = desired_topic
payload['password'] = MANAGEMENT_PASSWORD


def on_connect(client, userdata, flags, rc):
    client_topic = ROOT_TOPIC + 'topic/add'
    client.subscribe(ROOT_TOPIC + 'response') #important subscribe to response topic to get the command result
    client.publish(client_topic, json.dumps(payload))



def on_message(client, userdata, msg):

    received_data = json.loads(msg.payload)
    print(received_data)
    if 'client' in received_data:
        if received_data['client'] == payload['client']:
            print('Received Meesage from Logger: ')
            print(received_data)

client = mqtt.Client()
client.on_connect = on_connect
client.on_message = on_message

client.connect(MQTT_HOST, MQTT_PORT, 60)

client.loop_forever()

Running this script you will get a similar output to the following:

Received Meesage from Logger:
{u'topic': u'desired_topic', u'topics': [u'desired_topic'], u'client': u'simple_exampl
e', u'result': u'OK'}

Query Topic

In the following simple example, a topic query will be executed obtaining the topic information for the last 20 minutes:

import paho.mqtt.client as mqtt
import json
import mqttsqlite.settings.private_settings as Settings

QUERY_PASSWORD = 'YOUR PASSWORD'
MQTT_HOST = 'YOUR HOST'
MQTT_PORT = 'YOUR PORT'
ROOT_TOPIC = 'YOUR ROOT LOGGER TOPIC by default logger/'
desired_topic = 'desired/new/topic'

payload = {}
payload['client'] = 'simple_example'
payload['topic'] = desired_topic
payload['options'] = 20
payload['password'] = QUERY_PASSWORD


def on_connect(client, userdata, flags, rc):
    client_topic = ROOT_TOPIC + 'log/query/minutes'
    client.subscribe(ROOT_TOPIC + 'response') #importanat subscribe to response topic before request to the logger
    client.publish(client_topic, json.dumps(payload))


def on_message(client, userdata, msg):
    received_data = json.loads(msg.payload)
    if 'client' in received_data:
        if received_data['client'] == payload['client']:
            print('Received Meesage from Logger: ')
            print(received_data)
            client.disconnect()

client = mqtt.Client()
client.on_connect = on_connect
client.on_message = on_message

client.connect(MQTT_HOST, MQTT_PORT, 60)

client.loop_forever()

The response obtained could be similar to the following:

Received Meesage from Logger:
{u'topic': u'desired_topic', u'client': u'simple_example', u'values': [{u'timestamp':
u'2017-06-09 22:55:21', u'value': u'71'}, {u'timestamp': u'2017-06-09 22:56:14', u'val
ue': u'74'}, {u'timestamp': u'2017-06-09 22:56:15', u'value': u'74'}], u'result': u'OK
'}