GNIP-68: Monitoring Frontend Analytics

[allyoucanmap]

GNIP-68: Monitoring Frontend Analytics

Overview

With the improvements done to the Monitoring module backend, have been introduced new metrics and endpoints allowing us to potentially fetch and log seamlessly a lot more information about GeoNode usage.

The old fashioned Monitoring frontend was very limited, reporting just few numbers about hardware statistics and overall requests timings.

What we would like to have, is a brand new interface providing "Google Analytics" like dashboards to the Administrator, in order to have a clear idea about data usage statistics, active sessions and much more information available through the APIs.

E.g.:

Proposed By

• Stefano Bovio (GeoSolutions S.A.S.)
• Giovanni Scardapane (GeoSolutions S.A.S.)

Assigned to Release

This proposal is for GeoNode 2.10.1.

State

• Under Discussion
• In Progress
• Completed
• Rejected
• Deferred

Motivation

As said before, we want to:

1. Improve the old fashioned Monitoring Frontend
2. Add Analytics stats to the Monitoring info pages

Proposal

The new interface will provide a sidebar with a menu allowing the Admin to easily recognize the Monitoring section

The "Monitoring" section will, basically, wrap the old interfaces, improved and adapted to work with the new endpoints

A new "Analytics" section will be added providing:

1. Quick overview of the available Resources, along with counters of hits, unique visitors and anonymous sessions toward the selected time period

2. Quick overview of the accessed resources per year

3. Details view allowing to

• Select the time period of interest

• Report the detailed list of events catched
• Show the users hits

• Possibility to further filter the details against: Resources, Events

Backwards Compatibility

This is not compatible with versions older than 2.10.1.

Future evolution

This new Montoring client will be also a base for further developments and widgets as new endpoints and metrics will be developed on the backend.

Feedback

Voting

Project Steering Committee:

• Alessio Fabiani: +1
• Francesco Bartoli: +1
• Olivier Dalang:
• Paolo Corti: +1
• Simone Dalmasso:

Links

• Email Discussion
• Pull Request
• Mail Discussion
• Linked Issue

[t-book]

Thanks, @allyoucanmap looks great. Two comments:

• Unsure if it's already inbuilt if not: it would be great to support an opt-out cookie for users who do not want to get tracked (GDPR)

• Also regarding GDPR: When finished it would be nice to update docs / or README which data is tracked by monitoring app and how. (For example, IP Adress with last 3 numbers anonymized, etc.)
  This is the relevant info for all users who are forced to publish a complete privacy policy.

[afabiani]

@t-book good catch, but not within this proposal, I would say. Even because only registered user names will be logged, and, in theory, they already accepted the privacy statement.
Moreover, the MONITORING is disabled by default. It must be explicitly enabled by an admin.

Nevertheless, we will envisage how much additional work must should be done to add the cookie or, probably, open a new issue to keep track of this.

[afabiani]

Adding a bit more on this, for the time being, no private info is stored on the backend. Only counters associated to users sessions. No IP addresses at all.

[capooti]

+1 thanks!

[t-book]

@afabiani

but not within this proposal,

no worries first things first ;)

my +1 thanks for the great work.

[gannebamm]

I am not part of the PSC but I like the proposal!
+1

[simod]

+1