Parse-dashboard: Feature Requests

Created on 5 Apr 2016 · 8Comments · Source: parse-community/parse-dashboard

Hey Drew,

I was wondering if there were any plans to implement:

[x] a refresh button in the data browser (useful when running scripts from the command line)
[x] a way to back out of viewing a relation (go back to the referring view)
[ ] the analytics portion of the dashboard (on top of mongodb)

I'd be happy to help with either but I just wanted to feel out how warm the project is to taking something like that on (or if something was already in the works)

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TylerBrock

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Ah yes, we have been calling that type of thing "ops-ish analytics" internally. Yeah, this is also something we think would be very valuable. The serverInfo endpoint in Parse Server was actually designed to be extended to "ops-ish analytics" so adding disk/memory/cpu usage there would be a good first step, with a corresponding place to view it in the dashboard. How to handle multiple Parse Servers behind a load balancer is an open question, but one we don't necessarily need to answer right away. One solution might be to give the dashboard configuration a list of servers and it bypasses the load balancer to get the data, another might be to have one (or many) Parse Servers in "monitoring mode" that collect this info. @TylerBrock what do you think? Would you be willing to get started in adding support for some basic stuff in the serverInfo endpoint of Parse Server?

drew-gross on 6 Apr 2016

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We are definitely welcome to new features! A refresh button for the data browser sounds great - and even better if works for every page where it makes sense. So does backing out of relation views, I think that one could be done fairly easily using the router/history stuff we already use.

Analytics hasn't really a big focus of Open Source Parse because we feel that there are a lot of other analytics products out there that do a better job but if you are interested in helping we would welcome PRs.

drew-gross on 5 Apr 2016

Regarding the analytics, the main benefit for using parse analytics is the automation part in the client side (using the sdk). So we won't need to add more code.
And if the analytics part stay out of focus will it be a good idea to have a way for hooking the analytics code in the client SDK so we will only need to implement it in a single class.

ido43210 on 6 Apr 2016

+1 Refresh button.
Need to refresh the whole page to see updates.

meoz on 6 Apr 2016

I actually didn't mean the app analytics but more like how many requests is the app doing, how much disk are we using up, etc...

TylerBrock on 6 Apr 2016

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drew-gross on 6 Apr 2016

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+1 Analytics

Spshulem on 1 Jun 2016

This is something that Backendless does really well, showing what calls are made, how often and how long each call takes. This can really help root out time outs etc.

MobileVet on 7 Jul 2016

Just thought I would ping this issue since it's been a few years without activity. I was wondering what the current state is in terms of analytics.

Also:

Analytics hasn't really a big focus of Open Source Parse because we feel that there are a lot of other analytics products out there that do a better job but if you are interested in helping we would welcome PRs.

What other analytics products are available?

Thanks in advance!