Actual and historical user usage information.

[patelin]

Hi,

I am trying to find out if it is possible to extract/see the actual/historical Mantis usage information. e.g.

1. Number of connected users
2. Functions/screens accessed per user
3. Length of connection time per user
4. Connection statistics per user
5. Current connections pero user

Any help on the tool itself or a plugin would be greatly appreciated.

If not directly from Mantis, maybe it would be possible to get this information from Apache. I'll try and look into this and let you all know.

Thx

[atrol]

1. Number of connected users

Define what you mean with "connected" user. Will be hard to define, as there is no defined end of a connection in a web application like MantisBT.

2. Functions/screens accessed per user

For what purpose do you want this? Maybe your webserver logs provide enough information.

3. Length of connection time per user

See 1.

4. Connection statistics per user

Could you provide an example of a statistic how it could look like and explain for what purposes do you need the numbers in it?

[patelin]

1. Total number of users connected to Mantis.
To use Mantis, one has to have a valid user, no? So this would be the statistics (daily, weekly...) about these users.

2. Functions/screens accessed per user
I will see if I can get this from the web server.

3. Length of connection time per Mantis user

4. Connection statistics per user
This would be the total number of connection to Mantis in various periods (hours, days, weeks) (historical) and the total number of actual connections to Mantis.

All this information would be useful to manage the application on a day to day basis. This way we can see the usage peak-hours, the most popular functions/screens and the most prolific users.

If not directly from Mantis, maybe it would be possible to get this information from Apache. I'll try and look into this and let you all know.

[atrol]

To use Mantis, one has to have a valid user, no?

Depends on configuration, e.g. you are able to access (limited) functionality at http://www.mantisbt.org without being logged in.

If not directly from Mantis, maybe it would be possible to get this information from Apache. I'll try and look into this and let you all know.

There is some information in MantisBT that you can use. Have a look at database table mantis_user_table to get an impression.
Check also the following plugins (never used myself, can't tell you more)
https://github.com/mantisbt-plugins/google-analytics
https://github.com/mantisbt-plugins/piwik

[patelin]

OK.

Thx atrol. Will look into those two options.

Also surfing around, I found this one :

http://awstats.sourceforge.net/

which looks at the Apache logs.