[aerogear-dev] [UnifiedPush Server] Analytics / Metrics

[Matthias Wessendorf]

On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 8:25 AM, Sebastien Blanc <scm.blanc at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sounds good !
> Some comments inline
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 7:17 AM, Matthias Wessendorf <matzew at apache.org>wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> for a first round of collection 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)
>>
> + Response / Status of the submitted message I suppose (response status to
> the "sender" and info it's has been dispatched to the 3rd Push network) ?
> It would also be nice to see who has initiated the send request : cURL,
> backend app or Compose Message Page ? Not sure how to do this but could be
> useful IMO.
>
>>
>>
>> This is a nice feature, and would enrich the UPS.
>>
>
> For sure. But how will someone access these metrics ? Is the plan to have
> some kind of metric/usage page (with charts etc ...) on the console and/or
> just raw data in the form of json/xml/txt ?
>

Console, via REST endpoint. See this epic:
https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AGPUSH-116



>
>>
>> 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])
>>
> Yes, that is a tricky one even going beyond the scope of metrics. For
> instance with Android there is no way to unregister when you desinstall the
> app.
>

well, we have ways to capture that as well (see [4]).


>
>>
>> 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!
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> [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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