Log a Record of Enabling/Disabling the Queue

[frozenfrank]

Overview

Enabling or disabling the queue is an admin action that should be logged for auditing purposes.

Description

Whenever the server processes a request to change the queue status, whether valid or invalid, it should generate a log of the attempt including:

• netId
• timestamp
• approved/disapproved status

This log should be stored in a new table in the database where we could perform analytics on the total uptime of the queue, etc...

The logs could, optionally, also be sent into the Grafana logging instance set up for the AutoGrader. softwareconstruction240/autograder#318 contains the first known reference to Grafana logging. (This could be split into a separate issue as well.)

Worklist

• Create DB table
• Install code to reliably save records into the table
• Write/install sendToGrafana() script to report the log in the cloud as well

[frozenfrank]

@19mdavenport Can you comment on the feasibility of sending logs to Grafana from the HelpQueue backend? How should the data be organized: Should this be done in the same instance as the AutoGrader, or in a new account or data stream or something?

Would you be interested in adding client-side logging so that Grafana can report metrics about total usage into some cool dashboards? (If so, we could create a new issue to represent that work.)