This library offers an interface to interact with the various stat tracking tools that we will be using with the message broker.

Add via Composer

Add to a project through Composer in the composer.json:

{
  "require": {
    "dosomething/mb-stat-tracker": "v0.0.2"
  }
}

StatHat - Usage

StatHat basic value tracking that can either be incremented as a counter or averaged over time.

Create the StatHat Object

• The $stathat_ez_key is the EZ key linked to your StatHat account.
• The second parameter of the constructor (in this case 'stat-name-base:')is the base name of the stat. If no subset stat is defined, then stats will just get reported to this stat name alone.
• The ':' at the end of the stat's base name is not required. But it is a convention we're going with on the message broker.

use DoSomething\MBStatTracker\StatHat;

$statHat = new StatHat($stathat_ez_key, 'stat-name-base:');

Enable for Production

Maybe this is a bad design decision, but by default, stats won't get reported to the StatHat servers. This was done so dev stats don't mix with production stats. Again, maybe a bad design decision. But for now, you'll have to explicitly enable it if you want stats reported.

$statHat->setIsProduction(TRUE);

Add Additional Stats

(optional) If necessary, secondary stat names can be reported to and will be grouped separately in the StatHat reports. The following would create 3 separate stat names stat-name-base: stat name 1, stat-name-base: stat name 2, and stat-name-base: stat name 3:

$statHat->addStatName('stat name 1');
$statHat->addStatName('stat name 2');
$statHat->addStatName('stat name 3');

Report the Stats

Only one of the following should be used for each stat name:

• Add $count to the value of a stat name:

$statHat->reportCount($count);

• Add $value to a stat name. StatHat will calculate the average:

$statHat->reportValue($value);

Report Different Stats

To report different stats to different stat names, create different instances of the StatHat object.

$sh1A = new StatHat($ez_key, 'stat-base-1');
$sh1A->addStatName('name A');
$sh1A->reportCount(1);

$sh1B = new StatHat($ez_key, 'stat-base-1');
$sh1B->addStatName('name B');
$sh1B->reportCount(2);

$sh2 = new StatHat($ez_key, 'stat-base-2');
$sh2->addStatName('name name name');
$sh2->reportValue(1);

StatHat - Checking Reports

After logging into the StatHat account, reported stats can be viewed here: https://www.stathat.com/v/stats