fortnite

Fortnite

Provides performance insights and metrics tracking for both professional and amateur Fortnite players such as friends and family using the unofficial Fortnite API service.

Fortnite - All Players Dashboard

• Track pros and friends/family separately.
• Click on any player to view detailed individual stats.

Fortnite - Individual Stats Dashboard

• Track squads, duos and solo matches including total aggregated results.
• K/D Ratio dynamically changes red, yellow and green based on performance.

Fortnite - Player Comparison Dashboard:

• Compare stats between any two players to see who comes out on top.
• Final decision displays emoji based on custom metric to crown winner!

Alerts:

• Get alerted on Slack when your favorite Fortnite player wins!

Quick Install

InfluxDB UI

In the InfluxDB UI, go to Settings->Templates and enter this URL: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/influxdata/community-templates/master/fortnite/fn-template.yml

Influx CLI

If you have your InfluxDB credentials configured in the CLI, you can install this template with:

influx apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/influxdata/community-templates/master/fortnite/fn-template.yml --env-ref=fn_bucket=<INFLUX_BUCKET>

Note: If fortnite is not used for the fn_bucket name, the bucket name will need to be updated in the wins task, and the player, player2 and season query variables.

Included Resources

• 1 Bucket: fortnite
  • 30d retention
  • fn_bucket - user-definable resource name
• 1 Label: fortnite
• 1 Telegraf Configuration
  • exec input plugin
  • influxdb_v2 output plugin
• 1 Task: wins
  • uses Slack webhook
• 3 Dashboards:
  • Fortnite - All Players
  • Fortnite - Individual Stats
  • Fortnite - Player Comparison
• 4 Query Variables:
  • bucket
  • player
  • player2
  • season
• 1 Python script: get_fn_stats.py
  • used by Telegraf exec plugin to access Fortnite API endpoint
• 1 CSV file: players.csv
  • seeded with professional Fortnite player ids
  • used by Python script

Setup Instructions

1. Register for an account at fortniteapi.io
2. Retrieve your Fortnite API token at dashboard.fortniteapi.io
3. Look up Fortnite account ids with the following curl request:

curl --request GET 'https://fortniteapi.io/lookup?username=<USERNAME>' \
     --header 'Authorization: <FORTNITE_API_TOKEN>'

4. Check that the account returns metrics:

curl --request GET 'https://fortniteapi.io/stats?account=<PLAYER_ID>&season=<SEASON>' \
     --header 'Authorization: <FORTNITE_API_TOKEN>'

• Note: If the response contains "global_stats":null it's likely that that the Show on Career Leaderboard setting is set to OFF in the Account and Privacy section of the player's profile.

5. Add accounts to track in players.csv. For example:

• 4735ce9132924caf8a5b17789b40f79c,yes,Ninja
• The second column indicates professional status: yes|no

Telegraf

The Telegraf configuration requires the following environmental variables:

• INFLUX_HOST - The connection URL to your Cloud 2 account.
• INFLUX_TOKEN - The token with the permissions to read Telegraf configs and write data to the <FORTNITE> bucket.
• INFLUX_ORG - The name of your organization found on the profile page.
• INFLUX_BUCKET - The name of the bucket to write to.
• FORTNITE_API_TOKEN - The Fortnite API token.

Information on using enviromental variables can be found in the Telegraf Configuration documentation.

The Telegraf exec input plugin requires the following files:

• get_fn_stats.py - Python script used to ingest metrics via the unofficial Fortnite API

  • requests module required
  • The current season is hardcoded: season = 14
    • Update this when a new season starts.

• players.csv - CSV file containing a list of players to track using the following fields:

  • acct_id - Fortnite Account ID
  • pro - yes for professional, no for friends and family
  • player_name - not used by Telegraf
  • Note: This file is populated with several professional players. Add friends, family and others that will be tracked separately from the pro players.

Dashboards

The Fortnite - All Players dashboard displays a url drilldown to the Fortnite - Individual Stats dashboard. This url must be changed in the Friends & Family and Pros cells:

<INFLUX_HOST>/orgs/<INFLUX_ORG_ID>/dashboards/<FORTNITE_INDIVIDUAL_STATS_DASHBOARD_ID>

To get the full link, open the Fortnite - Individual Stats dashboard and copy the url up to but not including the "?".

Tasks

The Influx task requires the following influx secret:

• SLACK_WEBHOOK - The Slack webhook is used to send a message when a player wins a match.
  • https://hooks.slack.com/services/T00000000/B00000000/XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

influx secret update -k SLACK_WEBHOOK

Note: You will be prompted for the secret to add the Slack webhook.

Customizations

In order to make telemetry graphs more comprehensible due to large differences in performance between professionals and non-pros (friends and family), each group is tracked separately. You can add players, both professionals and friends/family by adding them to the players.csv file mentioned in the Telegraf setup section above.

Tasks

Alerts are sent when any player wins a match:

|> filter(fn: (r) => (r["pro"] == "no" or r["pro"] == "yes"))

This can be updated to only track friends/family ie:

|> filter(fn: (r) => (r["pro"] == "no"))

Fortnite Player Comparison

• The formula used to calculate overall performance is:

kd_ratio * (wins * winrate)

Other metrics ingested from Telegraf but not used include:

• placetop3
• placetop5
• placetop10
• placetop25
• matchesplayed
• minutesplayed

These are available for squads, duos and solo matches.

Contact

Author: Adam Silverman

Email: asilverman@influxdata.com

Github: @abalone23

Influx Slack: @Adam2