Logging

The easiest way to log data is to use the auto generated logging code in the visualizer logging tab. However you can find the official documentation below.

API Endpoint

https://api.graphjson.com/api/log

API Parameters

Field	Type	Description
api_key	string	your account api key
collection	string	the collection you want to query data from
timestamp	number	the unix timestamp of the event
json	string	the json event you want to log

So for instance, in Python your code might look like

import requests
import json
import time

payload = {
  "api_key": os.getenv('GRAPHJSON_API_KEY'),
  "collection": "all_events",
  "timestamp": int(time.time()),
  "json": json.dumps({
    "Event": "Uber Ride",
    "Price": 9.99,
    "Driver_Rating": 5,
    "Driver_ID": "123",
    "Day_Of_Week": "Saturday",
  }),
}

r = requests.post("https://api.graphjson.com/api/log", json=payload)

Bulk Logging

We also have a bulk logging API. It's very similar to the log API except instead of timestamp and json, you have timestamps and jsons. The endpoint is also /api/bulk-log instead of /api/log. So for instance in python your code might look like

import requests
import json
import time

payload = {
  "api_key": os.getenv('GRAPHJSON_API_KEY'),
  "collection": "all_events",
  "timestamps": [
    int(time.time()),
    int(time.time())
  ],
  "jsons": [
    json.dumps({
      "Event": "Uber Ride",
      "Price": 9.99,
      "Driver_Rating": 5,
      "Driver_ID": "123",
      "Day_Of_Week": "Saturday",
    }),
    json.dumps({
      "Event": "Uber Ride",
      "Price": 9.99,
      "Driver_Rating": 5,
      "Driver_ID": "123",
      "Day_Of_Week": "Saturday",
    }),
  ],
}

r = requests.post("https://api.graphjson.com/api/bulk-log", json=payload)

Do note that the this endpoint can at max handle aggregate json blobs of 50k characters. If you have large json blobs, you'll likely want to use smaller batch sizes.

Nested JSON

It's useful to note that all JSON blobs will be flattened. eg.

{
  "a": {
    "b": 1
  }
}

Will be flattened into

{
  "a.b": 1
}

Before being inserted into GraphJSON

FAQ

What is a unix timestamp?

The unix time stamp is a way to track time as a running total of seconds. This count starts at the Unix Epoch on January 1st, 1970 at UTC. Therefore, the unix time stamp is merely the number of seconds between a particular date and the Unix Epoch. Some APIs erroneously describe unix timestamps as milliseconds or nanoseconds since epoch. This is wrong, so please don't pass in milliseconds or nanoseconds as your unix timestamp. The API will reject the request.