Vercel Log Drains

Name: Tinybird
Brand: Tinybird
Rating: 5.0 (10 reviews)

Explore your Vercel logs with Tinybird

This is a template for a Vercel Log Drains Explorer web application. It is built with Next.js and Tinybird.

This is a fork of the Logs Explorer Template with some modifications to make it work with Vercel Log Drains.

Fork it and make it your own!

Set up the project

Fork the GitHub repository and deploy the data project to Tinybird.

# select or create a new workspace
tb login

# deploy the template
tb --cloud deploy --template https://github.com/tinybirdco/vercel-log-drains-template/tree/main/tinybird

# copy the dashboard token
tb --cloud token copy read_pipes

Deploy the project to Vercel to get started quickly.

Configure these Environment Variables in your Vercel project and you are ready to go:

NEXT_PUBLIC_TINYBIRD_API_KEY=<YOUR_TINYBIRD_READ_PIPES_TOKEN>
NEXT_PUBLIC_TINYBIRD_API_URL=<YOUR_TINYBIRD_REGION_HOST>

Get your Tinybird read_pipes token and region host from the Tinybird dashboard.

Instrumenting your Vercel Log Drains

Go to Vercel Dashboard and configure your Log Drains:

Choose your team scope on the dashboard, and go to Team Settings > Log Drains.
Select the Projects to send logs to Tinybird.
Select Sources you want to send logs to Tinybird.
Select NDJSON as Delivery Format.
Select Environments and Sampling Rate.
Set this URL <YOUR_TINYBIRD_REGION_HOST>/v0/events?name=logs&x-vercel-verify=<your-x-vercel-verify-token>
Select Custom Headers, add Authorization with the value Bearer <YOUR_TINYBIRD_ADMIN_TOKEN> and select Add.
Select Verify and create the Log Drain.

Local Development

Get started by forking the GitHub repository and then customizing it to your needs.

Start Tinybird locally:

curl -LsSf https://tbrd.co/fwd | sh
cd tinybird
tb local start
tb login
tb dev
token ls  # copy an admin token

Configure the Next.js application:

cd dashboard/log-analyzer
cp .env.example .env

Edit the .env file with your Tinybird API key and other configuration.

NEXT_PUBLIC_TINYBIRD_API_KEY=<YOUR_TINYBIRD_LOCAL_ADMIN_TOKEN>
NEXT_PUBLIC_TINYBIRD_API_URL=http://localhost:7181

Start the Next.js application:

cd dashboard/log-analyzer
npm install
npm run dev

Open the application in your browser:

http://localhost:3000

Read the dashboard/log-analyzer/README.md file for more information on how to use the application and tinybird/README.md for more information on how to customize the template.