Logging conversations with RedBot

Running a chat bot requires some caring, in particular you're never done training it.

A good habit is to inspect the chat bot log searching for user sentences that were not recognized by the bot and then update the parsers Listen node, RiveScript node, etc) in order to support it.

In RedBot every platform receiver can log the conversation to a file, it looks like

196520947 [Guido Bellomo] > Wed Oct 05 2016 12:08:45 GMT+0000 - /start
196520947 [Guido Bellomo] < Wed Oct 05 2016 12:08:45 GMT+0000 - Hi, this is GuidoneBot, here's what I can do for you:/help - you're already seeing this/where - tells where's Guido's house/cv - to get an updated CV (via email)/cam - pry into Guido's living room/message - send a high priority message to Guido/home - check if Guido is at home
196520947 [Guido Bellomo] > Wed Oct 05 2016 12:11:23 GMT+0000 - Come ti chiami?
196520947 [Guido Bellomo] > Wed Oct 05 2016 12:11:23 GMT+0000 - Sorry, I'm can only speak English

The first string is the chatId followed by the name (if available). Then the symbol > means it's an inbound message (from user to the chatbot).

There is also the Log node that produces a log string for every message that can be manipulated inside Node-RED (in case for example the log string should be sent to an external service).