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API Analytics Use Case #4178

Open mattab opened 10 years ago

mattab commented 10 years ago

It would be fantastic and very relevant to use Piwik as a API Analytics service. Piwik with its powerful log analytics and import can provide great insights in monitoring API and web services, such as: API request counters, successful requests, requests with errors, API Performance measurement, Continuous API monitoring. Count how many users use the API, which users use it often, which parameters they use, etc.

We would like to think about this use case a bit more and document how to use Piwik as a API Analytics platform. We have ourselves two APIs we could track using Piwik as a start.

mattab commented 10 years ago

Random notes:

Set "Visit duration" to 1 day to have accurate "unique users" metric
Unique Visitors per custom variable value is very interesting
- CVariable Unique Visitors metric might is missing for month
option to turn Page URLs parameters to Custom Variables? (makes API usage analysis easier)

mattab commented 10 years ago

See also #5257 Application Performance Management & Monitoring

MoralCode commented 5 years ago

Being able to monitor HTTP request methods (POST/PUT/PATCH/DELETE) would also be nice