Embedded Viewer

Now that you’ve sent some events into Retraced, it’s time to expose them to your end users. Retraced has an advanced, highly customizable log viewer that you can embed on your own site.

Note: Currently, a React-based site is required to embed the viewer, but support for embedding without React will be available soon.

Installing

There are a few short steps to getting the embedded viewer integrated into your site.

1. Install the retraced-logs-viewer package from npm and include in your site.
2. Request a token from the Retraced API to identify which group/scope the viewer should be limited to. This should be initiated from your backend server, not the browser.
3. Render the <RetracedEventsBrowser/> React component as part of your application

Obtain a viewer token from the Retraced API

The browser will communicate directly with the Retraced API to search and show audit logs. Your backend server is the only trusted source to identify who the browser is. To identify the user, your site’s backend should request a viewer token using the appropriate Retraced SDK or directly with the Retraced API. Once you have obtained a temporary viewer token from the Retraced API, send it to the browser where it can be used in the next and final step.

Render the component

Inside a React Component

    function render() {
        return (
            <RetracedEventsBrowser
              auditLogToken=<YOUR_VIEWER_TOKEN>
              header="My Audit Log"
              mount={true} />
        )
    }

or, without JSX:

ReactDOM.render(
  React.createElement(
    RetracedEventsBrowser,
    { auditLogToken: <VIEWER_TOKEN>, mount: true },
  ),
  document.getElementById('main')
);

Options

The embedded viewer supports quite a few options, but they all have defaults. The table below describes the keys that are possible to override in the component properties.