[LRUG] User activity tracking

[Mark Burns]

Possibly boring solution:
Have you looked at stuff like http://observer.no.de/  or other paid
services.

(just in case you haven't weighed up the cost of your time vs the cost of a
paid for service.O
Anyway, it's a rubyist approach in the sense that it's the simplecd
approach, I also think that

On 26 January 2012 00:05, Gerhard Lazu <gerhard at lazu.co.uk> wrote:

> For the past 6 months I've been working for GoSquared, a real-time website
> analytics service, and the available tech choices are pretty
> straightforward.
>
> *Redis* for real-time, short-term storage. It shines for aggregates and
> counters in particular.
>
> I've spent a fair amount of time with *Graphite* and there is no other
> open source project which gives you more time series goodness out of the
> box. MongoDB is nice and easy up to a certain point, but you find yourself
> needing to write a lot of code to do something that Graphite does
> brilliantly by default. This should help you get started<https://github.com/gchef/graphite-cookbook>
> .
>
> Your biggest challenge will be the long-term storage and post-processing
> (ie. map reduce). *Cassandra* is my favourite, but *MongoDB* will do the
> job. Pre Mongo 1.8 map reduce was buggy and very difficult to work with,
> but I've heard that since it got a lot better. Pick whatever you're most
> comfortable with, they're both fine choices.
>
> The challenge ahead of you is immense. Teams of many sharp developers have
> been working on the same problems for many years now. If you'll want some
> of the work cut out for you, there's always services with good APIs which
> you can build on. My first recommendation will have to be gosquared.com(in particular the February release), but
> chartbeat.com and gaug.es have their strengths too. For something more
> DIY-ish, I would check out Librato's metrics<https://metrics.librato.com/> and
> Splunk <http://www.splunk.com/view/whats-new/SP-CAAAFD2>.
>
> Good luck!
>
> Gerhard
>
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> On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 12:34 PM, Adam Carlile <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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