doesn't Google Analytics require JavaScript to be active on the client? If so, that would ignore hits from various categories of clients like people running no-script and agents making API calls through some kind of web service. i think it would also ignore internal requests, like from a cron job.
On Apr 26, 10:03 am, "Nick Johnson (Google)" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Chris, > > Have you considered simply using Google Analytics? > > -Nick Johnson > > > > On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 8:05 AM, Chris Killpack <[email protected]> wrote: > > I recently discovered that I had become a human cron-job: every night > > around 11:50pm PST I would log into the GAE dashboard, total the number of > > requests in my app and store them in a spreadsheet so I could track load > > over time. > > > I've found no mention of a dashboard API, which leaves scraping the > > HTML. This is non trivial because I have to deal with the Account login > > page, which I expect goes out of it's way to make auto login's hard. I > > thought about hard-coding the relevant cookies into the cron job, generating > > new ones by manual login every time the existing ones fail. But it appears > > the relevant cookies only last 24 hours, so I'm back to my nightly routine. > > > Is there another way to retrieve this info, and if not, are there plans for > > such a mechanism? I've found an open issue: > > >http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=655&can=5&c... > > > Thanks, > > > Chris > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Google App Engine" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]<google-appengine%[email protected]> > > . > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > > -- > Nick Johnson, Developer Programs Engineer, App Engine Google Ireland Ltd. :: > Registered in Dublin, Ireland, Registration Number: 368047 > Google Ireland Ltd. :: Registered in Dublin, Ireland, Registration Number: > 368047 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
