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

[Matthias Wessendorf]

On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 9:10 PM, Ken Finnigan <ken at kenfinnigan.me> wrote:

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

I talked to Heiko about this; my understanding was it's not yet factored
out into something that is re-usable. But the long-term goal is using their
bits



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> Or does it need to be something custom?
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> Ken
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> 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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>> --
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