[LRUG] User activity tracking

[Adam Carlile]

Thanks Guys, that's a real help!

Cheers
Adam

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From: Joe Corcoran <joe at tribesports.com<mailto:joe at tribesports.com>>
Reply-To: London Ruby Users Group <chat at lists.lrug.org<mailto:chat at lists.lrug.org>>
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 05:04:42 -0800
To: London Ruby Users Group <chat at lists.lrug.org<mailto:chat at lists.lrug.org>>
Subject: Re: [LRUG] User activity tracking

If you want realtime insight into user behaviour, statsd[1] might work for you. It's what Etsy uses[2] to send tracking data to Graphite[3], a realtime graphing system.  Graphite is a bit ugly, so Paperless Post wrote a nice front end for it, named Graphiti[4].

I can't vouch for these tools personally – I'd be interested to know if anyone else on the LRUG list has experience of them.

1. https://github.com/etsy/statsd
2. http://codeascraft.etsy.com/2011/02/15/measure-anything-measure-everything/
3. http://graphite.wikidot.com/
4. http://dev.paperlesspost.com/blog/2011/12/16/introducing-graphiti-an-alternate-frontend-for-graphite/

On 25 January 2012 12:34, Adam Carlile <adam at benchmedia.co.uk<mailto:adam at benchmedia.co.uk>> wrote:
Hola El Rug

I've been tasked with creating a user activity tracking engine, in order to build more complete profiles on our users, their preferences and common activities.

But I'm not really sure in which direction to go, I'm pretty sure that it's got to be a separate app, with a fast write database, something like MongoDB perhaps. Along with an exposed REST API to post and retrieve data.

I also want the tracking engine to send calls to various other external services, such as the Facebook Graph API.

It's something I've never tackled before so any advice or articles you would recommend would be great!

Thanks
Adam

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