Platform Team/Usage Statistics

Summary

Sugar usage statistics might be very useful from, e.g., an educational or research point of view. Statistics might be anonymous or personalized (by taking special efforts to keep information secure and local for use only by a particular deployment).

Statistics

All types of statistics are identified by IDs in a dot separated hierarchy. This makes it possible to refer to the particular type or level of data.

• shell
  Shell related stats.
  • shell.uptime
    How long Shell is running.
  • shell.active
    How long Shell window is on top.
  • shell.friends
    Number of buddies in the Groups view.
• journal
  Journal related activity.
  • journal.uptime
    How long Journal is running.
  • journal.active
    How long Journal window is on top.
  • journal.creates
    Number of create requests sent from the Journal window.
  • journal.updates
    Number of update requests sent from the Journal window.
  • journal.deletes
    Number of delete requests sent from the Journal window.
• activity
  Activities related stats; specified only for the particular activity.
  • activity.uptime
    How long Activity is running.
  • activity.active
    How long Activity window is on top.
  • activity.instances
    How many instances launched.
  • activity.new
    How many running instances with new Journal entity.
  • activity.resumed
    How many running instances with resumed Journal entity.
  • activity.buddies
    Number of buddies Activity is interacting with for all running instances.
• system
  System related stats.
  • system.uptime
    System uptime value.
  • system.diskfree
    How many storage space is free, in kilobytes, for the home directory.

Implementation

• sugar-stats library.
• sugar-client starting from 1.2 version, Sugar client complex solution that uses sugar-stats library.

See also

• Paraguayan Activity usage analysis basing on Journal records.
• Australian request for statistics gathering.