Platform Team/Usage Statistics

Summary

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

Statistics

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

  • shell
    Shell related stats.
    • shell.run
      Shell process is run.
    • shell.active
      Shell or activity window is active.
    • shell.collab
      Collaboration related stats in Shell.
      • shell.collab.buddies
        Number of buddies in the Neighborhood view.
  • activity
    Activities related stats.
    • activity.run
      Activity is run.
    • activity.active
      Activity window is active.
    • activity.collab
      Collaboration related stats for activities.
      • activity.collab.buddies
        Number of buddies activity is interacting with.
  • system
    System related stats.
    • system.uptime
      System uptime value.

Implementation

Monitor

The usage statistics will be gathered by sniffing DBus messages in sugar-client program launched with monitor command. The sugar-client will stay in daemon mode and send collected and filtered data to the sugar-server.

Collector

Analyzer