Piwik PerformanceMonitor Plugin

Description

This is a plugin for the Open Source Web Analytics platform Piwik. If enabled, it will add a new widget that you can add to your dashboard and a new link in the top navigation.

The widget will show the performance index of a site that auto-refreshes every 30 seconds. It shows the number of visitors or visit time in a 30 minute period compared to the maximum number of visitors in any 30 minute period of the last 30 days.

This plugin is inspired by the piwik barometer plugin and uses a lightly modified jQuery-Dynameter (original by Tzechiu Lei.

This plugin should run fine with installations with up to 100.000 page impressions per day. If you run a very large piwik installation and have performance issues with this plugin, please contact me - there is a solution for this. I have it up and running in an installation with more than 5 million visits per day.

(Tested with piwik 2.7.0, but supposed to run with older versions)

Installation

Install it via Piwik Marketplace OR install manually:

1. Clone the plugin into the plugins directory of your Piwik installation.

   cd plugins/
   git clone https://github.com/chanzler/piwik-performance-monitor.git PerformanceMonitor
   

2. Login as superuser into your Piwik installation and activate the plugin under Settings -> Plugins

3. You will now find the widget under the Live! section.

4. (optional) When you update: As there have been made several changes in v0.2.0 you might have to clear your cache (console core:clear-caches)

5. (optional) When you run a very large piwik installation please add the following index: ALTER TABLE piwik_log_visit ADD UNIQUE ( visit_first_action_time );

FAQ

###Features Here is a list of features that are included in this project:

• Live widget ("Performance Monitor") with key performance indices
• Add an item to the top navigation ("Performance overview") which displays the performance monitor widget for all your sites (configurable).

###Configuration Refresh interval: Defines how often the widgets will be updated. Every 30 seconds is a good value to choose.

Measurement period: Defines the measurement period in minutes. 5 minutes is a good value to choose.

Comparison period: Defines the period (x * 24h) the last 30 minutes are compared to. A good value for small sites with more or less static content is 30. For sites with peak days on weekends for example 1 will be a good value. 1 is also a good value for very big sites with a lot of traffic. You will have to play around with this value a little bit and figure out whalt will fit your needs.

Sites in overview: Defines which sites are displayed in the overview.

Changelog

0.2.6 Bugfix Release

• changed SQL from visit_last_action_time to visit_first_action_time (be sure to add the index i mentioned in installation description if you run a very large piwik installation)

0.2.5 Bugfix Release

• fixed bug with timezones that match /^UTC[+-]*/

0.2.4 Bugfix Release

• reengineering of scheduled task

0.2.3 Bugfix Release

• fixed bug in scheduled task

0.2.2 Bugfix Release

• fixed an installation bug

0.2.0 Second Beta

• made the plugin configurable by settings
• added more key performance indices
• performance overview now links to the dashboards
• fixed the timezone bug (configure timezone for each site properly)
• fixed several minor bugs

0.1.0 First Beta

• initial release

License

GPL v3 or later

Support

• Please direct any feedback to [email protected]

Contribute

If you are interested in contributing to this plugin, feel free to send pull requests!