[Building Sakai] Sakai Usage Stats at institution level

[Kevin P. Foote]

No I'm pretty sure this is all via: 

SNMP, DB SQL, ripping through log files :-) The idea is this is
external monitoring of a system. This happens to be sakai :-) but could
be applied to most any web app .. The fun is just getting to the data
you want depicted visually.

The graphs and data are all done with rrdtool [1] with which you can
monitor your toaster (or anything else for that matter) if you want :-) 

Adi has helped me out on some queries before .. check some other
threads.. RE monitoring heres one I know there's more though.

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.cms.sakai.devel/24916/focus=25199


[1] http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/

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thanks
  kevin.foote

On Fri, 30 Oct 2009, Omer A Piperdi wrote:

-> We also use Netscaler.. I am wondering where/how to grab those Netscaler
-> charts.. Are those part of Netscaler?
-> 
-> Thanks
-> Omer
-> 
-> Kevin P. Foote wrote:
-> > Plug for Adi's ctools monitor :-) Which is external to sakai. I think it's
-> > about as much as you could monitor sakai wise .. (well there's probably
-> > more) But it covers stuff you mentioned: 
-> > 'hits by tool' = most accessed tool .. you can get the idea from here..
-> > 
-> > Lots of cool geeky admin type graphs here (which is why its so cool)
-> > 
-> > https://ctstats.ds.itd.umich.edu/stats-bin/drraw.cgi?Mode=view&Dashboard=1160533679.18970&Filter=
-> > 
-> > The real info I like is the 'hits by path' and 'tts by tool' type stuff
-> > 
-> > I refer to this once and again to get ideas and add monitors to stuff
-> > :-) HTH.. 
-> > ------
-> > thanks
-> >   kevin.foote
-> > 
-> > On Thu, 29 Oct 2009, Mustansar Mehmood wrote:
-> > 
-> > -> Hi,
-> > ->      Is there any way to find out information in sakai, like
-> > -> What are the top X courses/project sites  being used/accessed ?
-> > -> What are the top X tools being used/accessed ?
-> > -> How many people have accessed a particular tool over  a semester or
-> > given
-> > -> period of time.
-> > -> Whether instructors are the ones using wiki the most or other roles.
-> > -> ...(There may be more variants of these questions )
-> > -> I  have noticed site-stats tool gives us some usage stats but that is
-> > for one
-> > -> particular site and usage within that site. I am curious if there is a
-> > way to
-> > -> find out for a whole sakai installation/deployment. I have looked at the
-> > HTTP
-> > -> logs and they don't seem to be application/sakai specific due to the
-> > nature
-> > -> of the HTTP protocol.
-> > -> -> Thanks,
-> > -> Mustansar Mehmood
-> > -> -> -> -- -> Mustansar Mehmood
-> > -> Educational System Developer&  Integrator
-> > -> -> Information Technology
-> > -> 6100 Main St. MS 119
-> > -> Houston Texas 77005
-> > -> -> Phone:(713)348-2523
-> > -> Fax  :(713)348 6099
-> > -> email:mustansar at rice.edu
-> > -> -> -> -> -> -> I have yet to see any problem, however complicated,
-> > which, when,you  looked
-> > -> at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.
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