Introduction

This is a brainstorm page, to find a good solution to monitor events in Open Food Facts.

*We need an event and action tracking and management system for the Platform for Producers: to monitor imports, verify new users etc.*
We can also consider other use cases to see if we can create a solution that could work for them too

What kind of events do we want to track

Something happened.

User actions
- e.g. an user registered, a product was added or edited...
- could be useful to have recent changes filterable by facets
Processes: some process started, failed, or completed
- -> this is the most pressing need, for which we don't have a good solution today
- Regular maintenance tasks (e.g. daily processing of something)
- Adhoc maintenance tasks (e.g. re-processing of products to apply a new taxonomy)
- User requested tasks
  - Imports and exports on the Producers Platform
Errors
- Software errors
  - MongoDB down
- Product quality issues

Something needs to be done.

User request that needs to be manually validated
- exporting products from the Producers Platform to the public database (at least for the first time)

Event log: being able to see individual events
Filtering by event type, country, product, organization, user etc.
Integration with OFF
- It's not just about generating events, but also being able to display events directly into OFF
  - e.g. show status of user generated tasks
Aggregated metrics, graphs etc. of events
- Nice to have, but not the main focus.
Event status for events that require an action (e.g. open / close)
Notifications (by mail, Slack channel etc.) for specific types of events
Public events and private events

Events collection in MongoDB
- Makes it easy to have lots of OFF specific facets for events

We probably do not want to turn the events system in an analytics system
- Keep things (e.g. the events database) relatively small