Operational analytics

The operational analytics platform collects data about applications, adapters, devices, and logs to give a high-level view of the client interaction with the MobileFirst Server and to enable problem detection.

The data for operational analytics includes the following sources:

• Crash events of an application on iOS and Android devices (crash events for native code and JavaScript errors).

• Interactions of any application-to-server activity (anything supported by the MobileFirst client/server protocol, including push notification).

• Server-side logs that are captured in traditional MobileFirst log files.

The operational analytics feature is accessible from the operations console and includes the following capabilities:

• Near real-time analytics for client activity with the MobileFirst Server.

• Analytics for adapter hits.

• Network latency analytics.

• Client log search and download.

• Server log search and download.

• Crash and stack trace search.

In addition to an at-a-glance view of the mobile and web application analytics, the analytics feature includes the capability to perform a raw search against server and client logs, captured client crash data, and any extra data you explicitly provide through client and server API function calls that feed into the MPF Operational Analytics.

• Data capture
  When the MPF Operational Analytics is deployed and the MobileFirst Server is properly configured, data begins to flow from the MobileFirst Server to the MPF Operational Analytics. Some types of data are captured automatically without extra client or server configurations. Some types of data require changes to be made in the client application to capture or forward the data to the MobileFirst Server.

• IBM MobileFirst Platform Operational Analytics security
  Learn about security with the MPF Operational Analytics.

• Production deployment and clustering
  Most of the clustering functionality and logic is handled by the MPF Operational Analytics. It is not necessary to do any additional work to cluster the application server that the MPF Operational Analytics is running on. The application servers are only necessary to host the MPF Operational Analytics and do not require special configuration for clustering.

• Administration
  Learn about the administrative aspects of the MPF Operational Analytics.

• Properties and configurations
  Learn about the properties and configurations used for configuring the MobileFirst Server and IBM MobileFirst Platform Operational Analytics.

Parent topic: Analytics