Chapter 16. Usability Analytics and Data Collection

The following chart represents the number of tasks run inside all jobs by a particular organization.

This chart represents automation controller use across all automation controller clusters by organization, calculated by the number of jobs run by that organization.

This bar chart represents automation controller use by organization and date, which is calculated by the number of jobs run by that organization on a particular date.

Alternatively, you can specify to show the number of job runs per organization in one week, two weeks, and monthly increments.

manifest.json is the manifest of the analytics data. It describes each file included in the collection, and what version of the schema for that file is included.

The following is an example manifest.json file:

  "config.json": "1.1",
  "counts.json": "1.0",
  "cred_type_counts.json": "1.0",
  "events_table.csv": "1.1",
  "instance_info.json": "1.0",
  "inventory_counts.json": "1.2",
  "job_counts.json": "1.0",
  "job_instance_counts.json": "1.0",
  "org_counts.json": "1.0",
  "projects_by_scm_type.json": "1.0",
  "query_info.json": "1.0",
  "unified_job_template_table.csv": "1.0",
  "unified_jobs_table.csv": "1.0",
  "workflow_job_node_table.csv": "1.0",
  "workflow_job_template_node_table.csv": "1.0"
}

The config.json file contains a subset of the configuration endpoint /api/v2/config from the cluster. An example config.json is:

{
    "ansible_version": "2.9.1",
    "authentication_backends": [
        "social_core.backends.azuread.AzureADOAuth2",
        "django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend"
    ],
    "external_logger_enabled": true,
    "external_logger_type": "splunk",
    "free_instances": 1234,
    "install_uuid": "d3d497f7-9d07-43ab-b8de-9d5cc9752b7c",
    "instance_uuid": "bed08c6b-19cc-4a49-bc9e-82c33936e91b",
    "license_expiry": 34937373,
    "license_type": "enterprise",
    "logging_aggregators": [
        "awx",
        "activity_stream",
        "job_events",
        "system_tracking"
    ],
    "pendo_tracking": "detailed",
    "platform": {
        "dist": [
            "redhat",
            "7.4",
            "Maipo"
        ],
        "release": "3.10.0-693.el7.x86_64",
        "system": "Linux",
        "type": "traditional"
    },
    "total_licensed_instances": 2500,
    "controller_url_base": "https://ansible.rhdemo.io",
    "controller_version": "3.6.3"
}

Which includes the following fields:

The instance_info.json file contains detailed information on the instances that make up the cluster, organized by instance UUID.

The following is an example instance_info.json file:

{
    "bed08c6b-19cc-4a49-bc9e-82c33936e91b": {
        "capacity": 57,
        "cpu": 2,
        "enabled": true,
        "last_isolated_check": "2019-08-15T14:48:58.553005+00:00",
        "managed_by_policy": true,
        "memory": 8201400320,
        "uuid": "bed08c6b-19cc-4a49-bc9e-82c33936e91b",
        "version": "3.6.3"
    }
    "c0a2a215-0e33-419a-92f5-e3a0f59bfaee": {
        "capacity": 57,
        "cpu": 2,
        "enabled": true,
        "last_isolated_check": "2019-08-15T14:48:58.553005+00:00",
        "managed_by_policy": true,
        "memory": 8201400320,
        "uuid": "c0a2a215-0e33-419a-92f5-e3a0f59bfaee",
        "version": "3.6.3"
    }
}

Which includes the following fields:

The counts.json file contains the total number of objects for each relevant category in a cluster.

The following is an example counts.json file:

{
    "active_anonymous_sessions": 1,
    "active_host_count": 682,
    "active_sessions": 2,
    "active_user_sessions": 1,
    "credential": 38,
    "custom_inventory_script": 2,
    "custom_virtualenvs": 4,
    "host": 697,
    "inventories": {
        "normal": 20,
        "smart": 1
    },
    "inventory": 21,
    "job_template": 78,
    "notification_template": 5,
    "organization": 10,
    "pending_jobs": 0,
    "project": 20,
    "running_jobs": 0,
    "schedule": 16,
    "team": 5,
    "unified_job": 7073,
    "user": 28,
    "workflow_job_template": 15
}

Each entry in this file is for the corresponding API objects in /api/v2, with the exception of the active session counts.

The org_counts.json file contains information on each organization in the cluster, and the number of users and teams associated with that organization.

The following is an example org_counts.json file:

{
    "1": {
        "name": "Operations",
        "teams": 5,
        "users": 17
    },
    "2": {
        "name": "Development",
        "teams": 27,
        "users": 154
    },
    "3": {
        "name": "Networking",
        "teams": 3,
        "users": 28
    }
}

The cred_type_counts.json file contains information on the different credential types in the cluster, and how many credentials exist for each type.

The following is an example cred_type_counts.json file:

{
    "1": {
        "credential_count": 15,
        "managed_by_controller": true,
        "name": "Machine"
    },
    "2": {
        "credential_count": 2,
        "managed_by_controller": true,
        "name": "Source Control"
    },
    "3": {
        "credential_count": 3,
        "managed_by_controller": true,
        "name": "Vault"
    },
    "4": {
        "credential_count": 0,
        "managed_by_controller": true,
        "name": "Network"
    },
    "5": {
        "credential_count": 6,
        "managed_by_controller": true,
        "name": "Amazon Web Services"
    },
    "6": {
        "credential_count": 0,
        "managed_by_controller": true,
        "name": "OpenStack"
    },

The inventory_counts.json file contains information on the different inventories in the cluster.

The following is an example inventory_counts.json file:

{
    "1": {
        "hosts": 211,
        "kind": "",
        "name": "AWS Inventory",
        "source_list": [
            {
                "name": "AWS",
                "num_hosts": 211,
                "source": "ec2"
            }
        ],
        "sources": 1
    },
    "2": {
        "hosts": 15,
        "kind": "",
        "name": "Manual inventory",
        "source_list": [],
        "sources": 0
    },
    "3": {
        "hosts": 25,
        "kind": "",
        "name": "SCM inventory - test repo",
        "source_list": [
            {
                "name": "Git source",
                "num_hosts": 25,
                "source": "scm"
            }
        ],
        "sources": 1
    }
    "4": {
        "num_hosts": 5,
        "kind": "smart",
        "name": "Filtered AWS inventory",
        "source_list": [],
        "sources": 0
    }
}

The projects_by_scm_type.json file provides a breakdown of all projects in the cluster, by source control type.

The following is an example projects_by_scm_type.json file:

{
    "git": 27,
    "hg": 0,
    "insights": 1,
    "manual": 0,
    "svn": 0
}

The query_info.json file provides details on when and how the data collection happened.

The following is an example query_info.json file:

{
    "collection_type": "manual",
    "current_time": "2019-11-22 20:10:27.751267+00:00",
    "last_run": "2019-11-22 20:03:40.361225+00:00"
}

collection_type is one of manual or automatic.

The job_counts.json file provides details on the job history of the cluster, describing both how jobs were launched, and what their finishing status is.

The following is an example job_counts.json file:

    "launch_type": {
        "dependency": 3628,
        "manual": 799,
        "relaunch": 6,
        "scheduled": 1286,
        "scm": 6,
        "workflow": 1348
    },
    "status": {
        "canceled": 7,
        "failed": 108,
        "successful": 6958
    },
    "total_jobs": 7073
}

The job_instance_counts.json file provides the same detail as job_counts.json, broken down by instance.

The following is an example job_instance_counts.json file:

{
    "localhost": {
        "launch_type": {
            "dependency": 3628,
            "manual": 770,
            "relaunch": 3,
            "scheduled": 1009,
            "scm": 6,
            "workflow": 1336
        },
        "status": {
            "canceled": 2,
            "failed": 60,
            "successful": 6690
        }
    }
}

Note that instances in this file are by hostname, not by UUID as they are in instance_info.

The unified_job_template_table.csv file provides information on job templates in the system. Each line contains the following fields for the job template:

The unified_jobs_table.csv file provides information on jobs run by the system.

Each line contains the following fields for a job:

The workflow_job_template_node_table.csv file provides information on the nodes defined in workflow job templates on the system.

Each line contains the following fields for a worfklow job template node:

The workflow_job_node_table.csv provides information on the jobs that have been executed as part of a workflow on the system.

Each line contains the following fields for a job run as part of a workflow:

The events_table.csv file provides information on all job events from all job runs in the system.

Each line contains the following fields for a job event: