[aerogear-dev] SIMPLE Analytics / Metrics for the UnifiedPush Server

[Ken Finnigan]

Would you be able to use the RHQ metrics module for this?

Or does it need to be something custom?

Ken


On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 6:57 AM, Matthias Wessendorf <matzew at apache.org>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> second try - as the first thread was hijacked around other discussions.
>
> For a first round of collecting some more data around the usage of the
> push server (aka analytics/metrics), I'd propose we keep it very simple!
>
> Overall, I see one major area of interest:
> *metrics around push messages being sent:
> - time of sending (using timezone of the server?)
> - group of receivers (e.g. everyone or the provided cirterias(e.g. alias,
> categories,...))
> - payload (the entire payload, including custom keys - not only alert,
> sound, badge etc)
> - info on: "could we deliver to the 3rd party networks?"
>
>
> This is a nice feature, and would enrich the UPS. The server will have a
> RESTful endpoint, and an UI for displaying the data. The view would be
> bascially a history for all the push sent (per "Push Application"
> construct).
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> However, I can see also some interest around device specific metrics:
>
> Today we obivously store all the registered devices, but we also remove
> them from the database table if needed (to not send messages to phones that
> would no longer receive them anyways).
>
> Something that would be interesting as well, might be the following data:
> - how often was an app has reached the push server  (note: every time the
> app starts, the metadata of the server is being updated (see [2])
> - number of device-tokens / registrationIDs that have been removed, when
> receiving errors from Apple/Google (see [3] or [4])
> - number of devices, that were activly removed using our APIs (supported
> only on Android/SimplePush due to Apple policy, see [5])
>
>
> While the initial focus should be around the message related metrics,
> capturing some device data is nice too.
>
>
> Any thoughts ?
>
> -Matthias
>
>
> PS: Oh, for the longer run(...), I'd also like to see metrics like "was
> mobile app opened due to a push notification". BUT that also requires some
> more work/reseach on the client Push SDKs. But seriously, this is not a
> priority for the next few months!
>
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> [1] https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AGPUSH-116
> [2]
> https://github.com/aerogear/aerogear-unifiedpush-server/blob/master/jaxrs/src/main/java/org/jboss/aerogear/unifiedpush/rest/registry/installations/InstallationRegistrationEndpoint.java#L98-L112
> [3]
> https://github.com/aerogear/aerogear-unifiedpush-server/blob/master/push/src/main/java/org/jboss/aerogear/unifiedpush/message/sender/APNsPushNotificationSender.java#L87-L94
> [4]
> https://github.com/aerogear/aerogear-unifiedpush-server/blob/master/push/src/main/java/org/jboss/aerogear/unifiedpush/message/sender/GCMPushNotificationSender.java#L93-L94
> [5]
> https://github.com/aerogear/aerogear-unifiedpush-server/blob/master/jaxrs/src/main/java/org/jboss/aerogear/unifiedpush/rest/registry/installations/InstallationRegistrationEndpoint.java#L117-L119
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