Add basic analytics and instrumentation for debugging

[liamzebedee]

Work items

• [x] dappnet documentation
  • [x] add GA
• [x] desktop app
  • [x] open
  • [x] close
  • [x] launch dapp
  • [x] upgrade
• [x] local gateway
  • [x] resolve-ens
  • [ ] resolve-ipfs
  • [ ] resolve-ipns
• [ ] ipfs resource usage monitoring
  • [ ] install-id datetime ipfs-daemon-tag ipfs-libp2p-peerid cpu-usage net-usage storage-usage
• [x] update server
  • [x] page view

How can you improve when you don't measure? What do we want to improve?

• Resolution speeds for .eth domains.
• Resolution speeds for IPFS content.
• Resource usage for P2P downloads (CPU, network).
• Convenience of Dappnet homescreen launcher.
• Convenience of which dapps are useful for users (consequence: come pre-installed by default).

[liamzebedee]

• dappnet.energy visits
• gitbook visits
• # downloads
• # chrome users
• # firefox users
• desktop client version + dependency versions (ipfs)
• gateway speeds (how quickly a resource resolves on IPFS for a user) - ipfs peer id, ipfs ip, ens namehash, ipfs/ipns hash. Probably need something that traces the entire request time (ie. 1inch.eth), since the latency seems to come from concurrent resource fetching in a waterfall like flow

[liamzebedee]

Options:

• grafana
• ga
• amazon cloudwatch metrics
• amplitude
• manual (store data in sqlite db)

Decision based on - ease of making graphs, measurement, adding new columns, etc.

Options:

• gitbook - add GA.
• gitbook - add tracking for download links (that rely on github CDN).
• extension - add tracking for popup
• dappnet.energy - add GA.
• desktop client - use grafana for logs and metrics
• desktop gateway - use grafana for metrics

Amplitude looks specifically tailored towards product + pricing is good.

telemetry is the word here

[liamzebedee]

Work items

• [x] GA on Dappnet Docs
• [ ] GA on dappnet.energy
• [ ] GA on downloads from update server
• [ ] GA on github release downloads of the Dappnet software
• [ ] Metrics
  • [ ] ENS resolution time.
  • [ ] IPFS resolution time.
  • [ ] CPU/networking/storage usage of ipfs.
• [ ] Events
  • [ ] Local gateway request.
  • [ ] Open app from launcher.
  • [ ] Open extension panel (for some reason).

How can you improve when you don't measure? What do we want to improve?

• Resolution speeds for .eth domains.
• Resolution speeds for IPFS content.
• Resource usage for P2P downloads (CPU, network).
• Convenience of Dappnet homescreen launcher.
• Convenience of which dapps are useful for users (consequence: come pre-installed by default).

Notes

It appears Gitbook only supports GA universal analytics (UA) projects. These are going to be deprecated in July 2023. Using it for now.

[liamzebedee]

Okay GA4 is an absolutely inordinate pain in the ass.

[liamzebedee]

And Prometheus requires a pull-based approach, which would involve figuring out their stupid protocol (since I can't use the Synthetix docker container). All I need to do is just get some data ugh. Going to just write a stupid MongoDB thing and do it this way. It shouldn't cost $15/mo just to get some graphs and a script to store data lmao.

[shunkakinoki]

Hello there https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/issues/1391

Analytics in web3 is a pain - you shouldn't be really using web2 services as it removes the whole anonymity side of things but there aren't that many good alternatives that scales

I used https://plausible.io/ for web analytics but had to pay $49/month

[liamzebedee]

Hahahahah wtf hello @shunkakinoki

[shunkakinoki]

Hello love how you document your entire brain process even in a github ISSUE lmfao

[liamzebedee]

Hello love how you document your entire brain process even in a github ISSUE lmfao

it's just so much easier to work & communicate openly if you can figure out how to do so :P

[liamzebedee]

5362e4ecbb51babe33ee353ded7f881cbb085373 implements telemetry for most of the above. tomorrow's work will be finishing off the gateway with tracking things

[liamzebedee]

Ran into challenges measuring the ENS/IPFS resolution times accurately, due to the node.js event loop and how it works. So for now, just logging the ENS names to get a good idea of important dapps and will measure them adhoc. https://twitter.com/liamzebedee/status/1644399226162663424