Monitoring your app in the Wild

Transcript

1. Monitoring your app in the Wild Danvick Miller
2. Why +Mobile apps are decentralized: wide variety of devices, OS, networks, locations +No centrally located logs +Unhappy users: bad app reviews, negative reviews on social media +Development and Business insights
3. Firebase Performance Monitoring +Gives insight into the performance characteristics +Collect performance data from your app, then review and analyze that data in the Firebase console +Helps you to understand in real-time where the performance of your app can be improved +This information can be used to fix performance issues
4. Firebase Performance: What can be monitored +General app performance – Startup time, +Http Request – Response time, Request Success rates, Payload sizes etc. +Custom traces – define your own metrics
5. Firebase Analytics +Provides insight on app usage and user engagement +Analytics reports help you understand clearly how your users behave e.g. Demographics, Retention, Engagement, Revenue +Enables you to make informed decisions regarding app marketing and performance optimizations +Build audiences – grouping users for targeted management of users
6. Types of Analytics +In-app behavioral analytics – who your users are, what users are doing on your app +Attribution Analytics – measure effectiveness of advertising and growth campaigns +Push notification analytics +Custom events – define your own app specific events
7. Firebase Crashlytics +Crashlytics helps you to collect analytics and details about crashes and errors that occur in your app +Logs crashes, analyzing and organizing – helps with +Grouped by versions, number of users affected
8. Crashlytics: How +Logs: Log events in your app to be sent with the crash report for context if your app crashes. +Crash reports: Every crash is automatically turned into a crash report and sent when the application next opens. +Stack traces: Even when an error is caught and your app recovers, the Dart stack trace can still be sent.
9. Other Monitoring and Reporting Services +Sentry - https://sentry.io +Bugsnag - https://bugsnag.com +Microsoft's VS Appcenter - https://appcenter.ms +Cisco AppDynamics - https://www.appdynamics.com
10. Other Resources +https://firebase.flutter.dev/ +https://github.com/danvick/flutter_boilerplate