[aerogear-dev] Mobile Statistics using Grafana, Prometheus running on OpenShift

Wed Jan 10 12:09:06 EST 2018

Thanks Dave - this nails it from my perspective.

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On 10 January 2018 at 17:07, David Martin <davmarti at redhat.com> wrote:

> I'd like to to try bring this back to the Story that the investigation is
> helping to derisk [1]
> "As a developer I want to be able to visualise runtime metrics about what
> versions of the mobile service SDKs are in use so that I can track what
> versions are used and see uptake of new SDK versions in order to deprecate
> services linked to older SDKs [met]"
>
> Does the investigation work that was done [2] allow us to deliver that
> Story [1] and related Story [3] in the future?
> The main value in those stories is:
> - a developer seeing what versions of the Mobile SDK are in use (and
> probably OS/user agent)
> - a developer seeing what app versions are in use
>
> Some dicussions offline with John has suggested this information be
> automatically available to the developer if:
> - the developer is using the Core SDK (They should be if they're using any
> Mobile Service, as its a pre-requisite for any other Mobile Service SDK)
> - the developer has provisioned the Metrics Service
>
> 'automatically available' implies that it happens on app startup or in the
> background at some point.
>
> If the developer hasn't provisioned the Metrics service, the Core SDK
> doesn't send any SDK or app version info (as it has nowhere to send it to)
>
> [1] https://trello.com/c/lt4jc3h4/10-as-a-developer-i-
> want-to-be-able-to-visualise-runtime-metrics-about-what-
> versions-of-the-mobile-service-sdks-are-in-use-so-that
> [2] https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AEROGEAR-1816
> [3] https://trello.com/c/HZ5BTwZY/11-as-a-developer-i-
> want-to-be-able-to-visualise-runtime-metrics-about-what-
> versions-of-the-mobile-app-are-in-use-so-that-i-can-tra
>
> On 10 January 2018 at 14:42, Wojciech Trocki <wtrocki at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks David. Really good question.
>>
>> I ignored mobile implementation in demo as most of the work for this was
>> done on server side.
>> I'm using different more extended use cases to drive SDK work.
>>
>> For mobile application there were couple manual steps:
>>
>> 1) Generate mobile configuration using mobile-client (not mobile specific)
>> 2) Drop configuration including URL into application (not mobile specific)
>> 3) Extract URL from configuration.
>> 4) Use AFNetworking framework (IOS) to make network request.
>>
>> I did not implemented that on Android platform, but flow should be the
>> same.
>> After obtaining URL/configuration to service users can make any API calls.
>> The only complexity will come with authentication - for example when
>> using keycloak, but that will require additional effort.
>>
>> IMHO At this point it's better to rely on sync service for initial SDK
>> service as it has non trivial client implementation (business logic etc.)
>> It's also clear that Sync will be used with some modified form.
>> For SDK investigations we are focused on extending step 3 and 4 into core
>> of our library.
>> Once that is done we can simply integrate two most important SDK's: Sync
>> and Push.
>>
>> Main goals are:
>>
>> - Investigate/implement android core library that will create map of
>> services from provided json/plist file.
>> - Integrate existing SDK sync and push
>> - Try to extract network into core (using aerogear-android-pipe from push
>> server)
>>
>> In the mean time we are working on SDK proposal and top level API (using
>> annotations)
>> BOM style dependency management that will improve user experience and
>> reduce versioning hell on Android platform.
>>
>> After doing that we can drive this forward and run sync behind keycloak
>> which should show us how we can provide authentication.
>> We may also extend mobile-cli to provide more service specific
>> information that is needed.
>>
>> I think that clearly summarizing entire SDK initiative at this moment.
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 12:37 PM, David Martin <davmarti at redhat.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Very nice Wojciech.
>>>
>>> I'd love to see/hear more about how it works from the Mobile App, if
>>> that piece is working.
>>> Did you populate stats using the App, or by just curling an endpoint?
>>> (Maybe you said and I missed that)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 10 January 2018 at 12:22, Wojciech Trocki <wtrocki at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Forwarding to internal list as AeroGear list seems to be having
>>>> problems with mail delivery.
>>>>
>>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>>> From: Wojciech Trocki <wtrocki at redhat.com>
>>>> Date: Tue, Jan 9, 2018 at 7:55 PM
>>>> Subject: Mobile Statistics using Grafana, Prometheus running on
>>>> OpenShift
>>>> To: AeroGear Developer Mailing List <aerogear-dev at lists.jboss.org>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi everyone
>>>>
>>>> I have been working today on investigation for enabling mobile
>>>> application statistics on top of OpenShift.
>>>> The main target was to enable mobile clients (using our SDK) to send
>>>> statistics payload to server.
>>>> For this purpose we were sending back mobile.next() SDK version from
>>>> different mobile clients and visualizing that data Grafana.
>>>>
>>>> *Demo: *
>>>>
>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zC95jJr1kcc
>>>>
>>>> *Where is the value? *
>>>>
>>>> Grafana, can be used to showcase various statistics that mobile
>>>> developers will need without extended development effort.
>>>>
>>>> *How we can extend this:*
>>>>
>>>> - Investigate different ways to store data in Prometheus (using labels
>>>> etc.)
>>>> - Integrate with Keycloak to showcase SDK capabilities and permissions.
>>>> - Golang implementation for service
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>> --
>>>>
>>>> WOJCIECH TROCKI
>>>>
>>>> Red Hat Mobile <https://www.redhat.com/>
>>>>
>>>> IM: wtrocki
>>>> <https://red.ht/sig>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> David Martin
>>> Red Hat Mobile
>>> Twitter: @irldavem
>>> IRC: @irldavem (#aerogear)
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> WOJCIECH TROCKI
>>
>> Red Hat Mobile <https://www.redhat.com/>
>>
>> IM: wtrocki
>> <https://red.ht/sig>
>>
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>
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> David Martin
> Red Hat Mobile
> Twitter: @irldavem
> IRC: @irldavem (#aerogear)
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