[Opensim-dev] OpenSim analytics

[Justin Clark-Casey]

Hi Stanley.  As drwhiet alluded, you can get some information out of the various OpenSimulator statistics mechanisms [1]

You could record avatar numbers by periodically fetching stats with outside programs, as is done by some monitoring 
tools.  However, these tools run as separate process which can be a bit complicated.  They also won't give you more 
detailed information about visit times or duration since this information isn't provided in the stats interfaces.

The more detailed stuff could all be done with a C# region module (by listening for various events) but I'm not aware of 
any implementation at the moment.  And I'm not aware of anything that integrates with Google Analytics.  I'm not sure 
how one would do this as GA is oriented towards websites, but it would certainly be interesting to see if such 
integration is possible.

Off the top of my head, you could do a *very* rough and ready implementation by periodically executing the "show users" 
console command for each region and then writing a tool to scan the logs.  But this would be an extremely hacky and 
pretty fragile approach :)

[1] http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Monitoring

On 20/04/12 07:48, Stanley Yip wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Where do I start in terms of OpenSim analytics?
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> For the region we have at my work place we are looking at tracking data such as avatar numbers, visit times, visit duration.
>
> Are there server side modules that integrate with Google Analytics?
>
> Keen to hear from the collective wisdom of the list.
>
> Thanks in advance!
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