Apidays Paris 2023 - Monitor Discourse via API, Usman Ahmad, Grafana Labs

Apidays Paris 2023 - Software and APIs for Smart, Sustainable and Sovereign Societies
December 6, 7 & 8, 2023

Monitor Discourse via API
Usman Ahmad, Senior Community Support Engineer, Grafana Labs

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Transcript

1. Monitor Discourse Via API 8 Dec. 2023
2. Syed Usman Ahmad Sr. Developer Advocate What I do? My previous roles? What I do beside work? Presenter About me
3. Why are we here today?
4. Lots of users traffic on daily basis
5. Using Admin Reports Some examples: • New contributors • Top traffic sources • Newly created topics • Newly created topics • Topics with no response • etc
6. How to monitor the Community performance?
7. 2 3 Easy and powerful to get data 1 Enables SQL queries against Backend DB Discourse Data Explorer Plugin Supported by the Discourse API
8. • SQL query to get the Top 20 posts Example
9. • JSON Result: Example
10. This is how we monitor the Community
11. How to do it?
12. 2 3 Only need to connect to a Data source 1 OSS, Enterprise and Cloud versions Using Grafana Support various Visualisation formats
13. 2 3 Supports many Grafana features 1 Free to use Using Infinity plugin Support various data formats
14. Configuring Datasource
15. 2 Step process
16. How is it going to work?
17. Sending Request
18. Receiving Response
19. This is what you can design !!
20. Live Demo
21. Using different Panel Visualisation
22. Troubleshooting
23. Troubleshooting
24. Troubleshooting
25. Key Takeaways
26. Want to get involved? • GitHub repo • Slack channel #grafana • Community forum 1 To report bugs, feature-request: 2 Other useful resources: #grafana grafana/grafana community.grafana.com
27. Contact me: Thanks for participating! Syed Usman Ahmad usman.ahmad@grafana.com