determine 'process type' and prepend it to metrics log - issue #169

libs/configuration.js

@@ -130,3 +130,14 @@ exports.performSubstitution = function(app) {
   }
 };
 
+// At the time this file is required, we'll determine the "process name" for this proc
+// if we can determine what type of process it is (browserid or verifier) based
+// on the path, we'll use that, otherwise we'll name it 'ephemeral'.  
+if (process.argv[1] == path.join(__dirname, "..", "browserid", "run.js")) {
+  g_config['process_type'] = 'browserid';
+} else if (process.argv[1] == path.join(__dirname, "..", "verifier", "run.js")) {
+  g_config['process_type'] = 'verifier';
+} else {
+  g_config['process_type'] = 'ephemeral';
+}
+

libs/metrics.js

@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ function setupLogger() {
   else
     mkdir_p(log_path);
 
-  var filename = path.join(log_path, "metrics.json");
+  var filename = path.join(log_path, configuration.get('process_type') + "-metrics.json");
 
   LOGGER = new (winston.Logger)({
       transports: [new (winston.transports.File)({filename: filename})]