Difference between revisions of "Platform Team/Usage Statistics"
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* '''''shell'''''<br>Shell related stats. | * '''''shell'''''<br>Shell related stats. | ||
** '''shell.uptime'''<br>How long Shell is running. | ** '''shell.uptime'''<br>How long Shell is running. | ||
| − | ** '''shell. | + | ** '''shell.active'''<br>How long Shell window is on top. |
** '''shell.buddies'''<br>Number of buddies in the Neighborhood view. | ** '''shell.buddies'''<br>Number of buddies in the Neighborhood view. | ||
** '''shell.friends'''<br>Number of buddies in the Groups view. | ** '''shell.friends'''<br>Number of buddies in the Groups view. | ||
* '''''journal'''''<br>Journal related activity. | * '''''journal'''''<br>Journal related activity. | ||
| − | ** '''journal. | + | ** '''journal.active'''<br>How long Journal window is on top. |
** '''journal.updates'''<br>Number of update requests from the Journal window. | ** '''journal.updates'''<br>Number of update requests from the Journal window. | ||
** '''journal.deletes'''<br>Number of delete requests from the Journal window. | ** '''journal.deletes'''<br>Number of delete requests from the Journal window. | ||
* '''''activity'''''<br>Activities related stats; specified only for the particular activity. | * '''''activity'''''<br>Activities related stats; specified only for the particular activity. | ||
** '''activity.uptime'''<br>How long Activity is running. | ** '''activity.uptime'''<br>How long Activity is running. | ||
| − | ** '''activity. | + | ** '''activity.active'''<br>How long Activity window is on top. |
** '''activity.instances'''<br>How many instances launched. | ** '''activity.instances'''<br>How many instances launched. | ||
** '''activity.new'''<br>How many running instances with new Journal entity. | ** '''activity.new'''<br>How many running instances with new Journal entity. | ||
Revision as of 19:08, 10 January 2012
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.buddies
Number of buddies in the Neighborhood view. - shell.friends
Number of buddies in the Groups view.
- shell.uptime
- journal
Journal related activity.- journal.active
How long Journal window is on top. - journal.updates
Number of update requests from the Journal window. - journal.deletes
Number of delete requests from the Journal window.
- journal.active
- 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.
- activity.uptime
- system
System related stats.- system.uptime
System uptime value. - system.diskfree
How many storage space is free on the main disk.
- system.uptime
Implementation
Monitor
The usage statistics will be gathered by sniffing DBus and X11 messages in the sugar-client program launched with the monitor command. The sugar-client will stay in daemon mode, and send collected and filtered data to the sugar-server, or, will keep it for later collection in server-less environments.
Journal crawler
In addition to the realtime monitoring, it might be useful to collect some stats from the Journal. It should be possible to run this code on a client side, or, on school servers using Journal backups.
This feature was implemented in Paraguay, but is not being used right now.