[Opensim-dev] OpenSim analytics

[Stanley Yip]

Thanks Justin.

Some good pointers for Mark, Lorence and I to have a think about.

Stan Yip

On 21 April 2012 12:52, Justin Clark-Casey <jjustincc at googlemail.com> wrote:

> 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<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?
>>
>> 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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