[Feature]: Enable ability to drill down into detailed stats

[imajes]

Problem or Use Case

I'd like to be able to drill down into stats like the "other" groups in codec stats, so i can dig in and see what media it reflects. It'd also be useful to identify correlations between failed streams and codec / transcode / etc settings -- to figure out if a particular file or combo just doesn't really work, for example.

Same is true for the performance tabs- where there are bad hot spots, it'd be good to be able to drill into them.

Proposed Solution

Essentially it sounds like it's mostly a filtering system - ability to filter the current perf + stats views by some kind of criteria.

Then for specific cases, it'd then be nice to link to specific streams, with as much detail as possible to help debug underlying issues.

Alternatives Considered

No response

Affected Platforms

• Web Dashboard
• Mobile App (iOS/Android)
• Server/Backend
• Notifications
• API
• Not sure

Related Media Servers

• Plex
• Jellyfin
• Emby
• All / Not server-specific

Feature Category

Dashboard / Analytics

Impact

Important - significantly impacts my use case

Examples or References

i'd say this is more how tools like datadog etc work -- proper analytics tools for apps, so you can build and create whatever dashboards you need etc.

Additional Context

No response

Contribution

• I can help test this
• I can help document this
• I can help build this

Checklist

• This isn't a duplicate of an existing issue
• This fits Tracearr's scope (streaming access management)

[connorgallopo]

I mean I can have "other" shown on hover. But there is no reason to track "failed streams" or anything like that. No streaming service tells us why something stopped, only that it is no longer streaming. The only statistics that will be shown in this ui are the ones that are validated for accuracy and data backed.

[connorgallopo]

But out of all the things in this request, the "other" is probably the one that is most likely to make it in. There isnt data to back much else of what you are looking for here

[Gishky]

might I add with the "drilling down into detailed stats", that it would also be nice to be able to click on things to get a more detailed view... let me explain:

In case I am interested in these 10 am plays, it would be ideal for me to be able to click on the bar and it opening a list of all the plays that happened there so I can take a closer look. This is just an example, I would like this to be doable everywhere ideally

It would already be enough if the "History" Tab opened with the required filters already configured
(of course this would require more advanced filters to be added as well, like a "Time" filter)

[LastElf]

Echoing this, anything that is a graph I should be able to click and see what streams/media items are inside that section of the report.

Also the watch analytics says x movie was watched y times, but I can't click on it to see who those y watches were, I have to go into the history tab and then search for the movie title. Clicking on the title should take me there with the search already filtered to that title and time range of the watch analytics page.

[alexkahler]

Right, I have the same issue. I would like to know which items that are in AV1 codec, because my CPU doesn't support this.
I can see that I have 239 items, but I don't have the ability to act on it. This is where it would be great to be able to click on the graph and either drill-down or filter to show media items.

[kerbysj]

This feature request sent me down a path to do the same. im looking at jellyfin reports to see if i can get the data.

[buttcheekz]

I see the goal of this request as:

A Tracearr admin should be able to display the underlying data that makes up an event or graph in my UI simply by clicking the metric or event record.

I agree it definitely should not be trying to do any kind of APM analysis or creating new data categories outside of what's offered by the media server; it should just show the data that made the metric.

@connorgallopo could you please explain a bit more about your previous comments "The only statistics that will be shown in this ui are the ones that are validated for accuracy and data backed." and "There isnt data to back much else of what you are looking for here" ?

Do you mean that Tracearr currently doesn't have the ability to store and maintain records of the data that it derives these metrics from? Or are you saying it's not even feasible to do a lookup of that data when "drilling in" to a particular stat or graph?

I would also argue that while it's true no streaming service today tells you why something failed, that's only true because we're not the ones maintaining them. In Tracearr's case, we are the admins of our media servers.

So while I don't expect this feature to directly answer the question "why did my streams fail", that's the question I'm trying to answer as an admin. To answer that, I should be able to click on any graph or metric displayed in Tracearr to see the details and data that was used to create that metric

[connorgallopo]

Of course the data exists to drive the historical metrics we show... if it didn't you wouldn't see them. That was never the question. What I said was there's no data for failure analysis. The servers tell us a stream stopped, not why. No failure event, no error code, nothing. So there will never be a "failed streams" stat or a "why did this fail" view, because the data doesn't exist to derive the reason.

Clicking a chart to see the sessions behind it is a different ask. That's just filters and links on data we already have, and it's the realistic part of this request (along with expanding "other"). If this gets picked up, that's the shape it takes: chart slice opens History filtered to that slice. It shows you what happened, not why. If the same file dies at the 2 minute mark on the same device every time, you're gonna have to draw the conclusion yourself. This is not DataDog or another correlation engine.

[buttcheekz]

ack - thank you! I think I'm on the same page as you. I agree that I don't see Tracearr as any kind of APM or correlation engine and I understand Tracearr is limited in scope to Streaming access management. I just wanted to clarify what the technical blockers were around surfacing the supporting data for metrics and explain my use case for wanting to drill down into graphs and activity metrics.

When I first read this (and what I think myself and others are lobbying for) is exactly that 2nd piece of "Clicking a chart to see the sessions behind it" to show what and not why.

Specifically it'd be great to see on all graphs on Stats>Activity page and all pages under Library. The Performance>Bandwidth page kind of does something like this today where if you click a Top Bandwidth user, it takes you to their User page with the raw session data for that user.

[connorgallopo]

Coming next release.