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).

Counter types

Measured statistics values might be one of the following types:

• absolute
  value to use as-is, e.g., amount of free disk space;
• uptime
  number of seconds since event start, e.g., how long window is active; if event is not active, value will be reset to zero;
• counter
  counter value that is being incremented all time without resetting to zero;
• relative-counter
  a counter, number of times event was registered since upstream event start; if upstream event is not active, value will be reset to zero, e.g., journal.creates will be incremented if Journal runs and will be resent to zero after Journal closing.

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 uptime
    How long Shell is running.
  • shell.active uptime
    How long Shell window is on top.
  • shell.friends absolute
    Number of buddies in the Groups view.
• journal
  Journal related activity.
  • journal.uptime uptime
    How long Journal is running.
  • journal.active uptime
    How long Journal window is on top.
  • journal.creates relative-counter
    Number of create requests sent from the Journal window.
  • journal.updates relative-counter
    Number of update requests sent from the Journal window.
  • journal.deletes relative-counter
    Number of delete requests sent from the Journal window.
• activity
  Activities related stats; specified only for the particular activity.
  • activity.uptime uptime
    How long Activity is running.
  • activity.active uptime
    How long Activity window is on top.
  • activity.instances counter
    How many instances launched.
  • activity.new relative-counter
    How many running instances with new Journal entity.
  • activity.resumed relative-counter
    How many running instances with resumed Journal entity.
  • activity.buddies counter
    Number of buddies Activity is interacting with for all running instances.
• application
  Applications related stats in non-Sugar mode; specified only for the particular application.
  • application.uptime uptime
    How long application is running.
  • application.active uptime
    How long application window is on top.
• network
  Network related stats.
  • network.uptime uptime
    How long client is connected to the Internet.
  • network.school uptime
    How long client is connected to school network.
• system
  System related stats.
  • system.uptime uptime
    System uptime value.
  • system.diskfree absolute
    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.