Export metrics for a number of daily users (dau)

Open andrii-korotkov-verkada opened this issue 1 year ago • 5 comments

Summary

Export a metric about how many distinct users of ArgoCD server were there in the last 24 hours (or maybe support a few other intervals).

Motivation

This can be great to evaluate how many people need to use the tool. It can be interpreted both ways - lower metric can also mean people don't have many issues and rely on autosync.

Proposal

Keep some counter with a rolling window on ArgoCD server and populate daily users from it.

Nov 14 '24 20:11 andrii-korotkov-verkada

Is this issue still available

Apr 03 '25 05:04 sathiya06

Sorry for the long reply, yeah, it's available, the linked PR doesn't address it IIUC.

Apr 19 '25 16:04 andrii-korotkov-verkada

@andrii-korotkov-verkada @rumstead can you take a look at this PR. I have added a counter that increments whenever a user logs in.

I also looked into ways to accurately track the active users instead just counting request by using tools like ClickHouse. But it requires adding another tool just for this purpose which i figured is not what we are looking for.

Jun 12 '25 05:06 sathiya06

I think the idea of implementing daily user count metrics through login is good. However, I'm not sure if it's okay to collect new metrics every time log in.

I'm curious about other reviewers' opinions :)

Jun 15 '25 07:06 sunyeongchoi

I am running 3.2.1 but I am not getting the metric. Is there anything I need to do to enable it?

Dec 01 '25 15:12 raweber42