Metrics: Enhancements to the Field/Type Utilization Module

[setchy]

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We're working on some OKRs to help drive our organizations adoption of Federated GraphQL landscape

One interesting concept/suggestion that has been brought up was extending the Fields/Types utilization module, but drilling down into these types of dimensions:

• % of fields used from supergraph
  • goal would be to trend this towards 100% through
    • growing client adoption and/or
    • schema pruning (remove dead types/fields)
  • would help balance a build and hope they will come/consume mindset
• view of most popular types/fields at a graph/variant or subgraph level
  • you can kind of get this information to-date, but it involves a fair few clicks and isn't easy to aggregate
• ability to trend field/type utilization over historical points in time
  • has a given type/field:
    • grown in utilization
    • remained stable
    • hasn't been used for an extended period (ie: multiple months)
• etc

[timbotnik]

Thanks @setchy! Love these ideas. We're starting to put some design energy into a re-imagined schema insights experience, so would be great to connect and discuss your workflows.

[setchy]

Absolutely, would love to help @timbotnik

[timbotnik]

Note that the new Field Insights Page answers the last part of this request:

ability to trend field/type utilization over historical points in time has a given type/field: grown in utilization remained stable hasn't been used for an extended period (ie: multiple months)