I've setup Xamarin Insights, and was able t catch 2 exceptions. I added some Xamarin.Insights.Track(...... statements to track some functionality.
However I can not see this on the web portal. The overview displays 5 users 80+ sessions and 2 open issues (the exceptions). Is the Tracking/event feature a special paid feature or?
(While this response is bit late, maybe it's still useful?)
Short version: Insights Event tracking is a paid feature.
Longer version: In order to gain access to Insights Event tracking you would need to upgrade your Insights subscription tier to an Enterprise level (which I'm not sure is possible post-merge). At this point you would benefit more by migrating your app to utilize HockeyApp (if you haven't already). I suppose if you absolutely need this functionality, perhaps you could write into Xamarin support or sales.
Old Xamarin Insights tier page via web.archive.org (https://web.archive.org/web/20160304014709/http://xamarin.com/insights#pricing)
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I need to get hardware information from azure web roles / web worker to monitor it for critical conditionals like high memory/cpu usage.
I tried to use some addons which are provided in the azure gallery like the one from "logentries", but the gallery doesn't support my country yet...
Is there an other way to get the log information directly?
Last option would be Azure Diagnostics, but it stores everything in blob storages and I would have to pull everything out there on my own and send it to "manually" to logentries, geckoboard or whatever.
Three good options:
Windows Azure Diagnostics. Yes, it puts everything in table/blob storage which is painful, but there are tools such as Cerebrata's Azure Management Studio that can help gather and visualize the data.
Application Insights. This is still in preview, but it provides a very rich application monitoring and alerting platform.
The built in Azure monitoring. This is not quite as feature rich as Application Insights, but it is very easy to setup and use and includes monitoring and alerting.
I'm surprised that no one mentioned New Relic.
It has a comparable feature set to Application Insights but should be way more stable since it's not in preview like Insights. (although I am following the development of Insights closely, give it a while and it will be an awesome alternative)
What are available options of intranet-hosted (e.g. not Google Analytics) usage tracking tools for web application? This application is written in ASP.NET and used in intranet. So ideally if hosted part would be on .NET for consistency. I want to see where user clicks, what pages visit, what buttons clicks.
i can only recommend Piwik, which i used for some time, and produced great results (and it is open-source!)
Is there any reason you wouldn't use SaaS version for usage tracking?
Commercial solutions such as Totango (my company) honor your privacy and confidentiality.
Short Version (tl;dr):
Is there an open source or commercial engine that provides embeddable collaboration and microblogging functionality?
Long Version:
I am creating a niche application that has need of this functionality and do not want to reinvent the wheel. The following are must have requirements:
Data API only. My application is SaaS, and I want to build the functionality around the data. This eliminates most of the offerings out there (facebook, salesforce chatter, yammer, present.ly, teambox)
Does not require use of a built-in front end. I really just want an engine that will take care of the storage and events, and gives me a means of querying. Requiring the use of a specific front end renders it useless for embedding into my app. This eliminates everything else I have found (status.net, Yonkly, Jaiku)
Beyond standard updates and replies, can handle custom events. For example, if I were embedding this into an logistics application, I could have the engine handle events like "shipped", "received", and "cancelled".
Beyond this, there are several nice to have features that a framework would have:
Should not require a specific platform or server technology to run (i.e. something like a RESTful API would be nice)
Should be message based so that commands that affect its state can come from any source
Should encapsulate its own storage so that external resources are not necessary (i.e. no database needed)
Should have pluggable extendable UI components/widgets for web, mobile, and desktop clients
Should have search and retrieval APIs available for many languages/platforms
It seems that someone out there should have this already, or at least be in progress with it. Please point me in the right direction.
Since nobody had any answers and continued research did not find anything, I created a solution on my own called Collabinate. Updates can be found on Twitter, and the project itself is hosted on GitHub.
I have a client interested in a real time chat application for a SharePoint intranet portal to enable online interview style chat sessions.
Has anyone got reccomendations for a product on the Microsoft Stack that does this? Something that is integrated into SharePoint would be prefferable, but any ASP.NET product would suffice.
The solution would need to be pretty robust as we would expect over 1000 users during a given session.
Microsoft Office Communication Server is the way Microsoft intended chat for SharePoint. I dont know if its just for 1 to 1 communcation or if there is a good multi-user support.
Another way to implement chat (or IM) in SharePoint is to use Windows Live Messanger and the green precense icon which shows up to the left of all names in SharePoint. But this is probably not the way you want to use chat.
We initially turned to handy Windows Live Messanger, However we dropped it because of security concerning.
We are using Groove, which look advisable so far.
FYI
There is ChatterBox. It's more of a demo app but the source code is available. The latest version is dated 2007 and is in beta with AJAX support.
As you have the source code, I'm sure you could take it and turn it into something nice.
I did a little work into this but dropped it because it take alot work to implete all needed features.
The easiest way looked to use IRC. IRC client software is available as asp.net, use via an iframe or make into a custom web part, there are also flash or java clients which could be imbedded.
You would need to setup a IRC server.
There is a third party product for SharePoint 2010 called GameTime that supports real-time web based chat integrated into SharePoint.
Do you know if it's possible to build an application for the LinkedIn platform?
Yes, they have API at http://developer.linkedin.com/index.jspa, allowing access to the profile, connections, messaging and more.
While LinkedIn has promised a public API for a very long time now, they have yet to deliver.
No, there is no public LinkedIn API yet.
IMO, their widgets (which there are only two of at the moment, which are very limited) don't count.
They say that they are open to being contacted with specific uses for their API and they may give access to parts as needed - but that is if they accept your ideas for integration. They have been very picky with this - and have not accepted my attempts to integrate with LinkedIn yet, they tell me I have to wait with everyone else, apparently my applications are not "high-profile" enough.
Sure, you'll find many Google results talking about their "promised" API, but they are empty promises and won't be of much help.
Yes, Linkedin has an API:
http://www.programmableweb.com/api/linkedin
http://blog.linkedin.com/blog/2007/12/the-intelligent.html
So you could build an application that uses it.
Update: (from second link)
We’ll be phasing all of this in over the coming months and to get involved with the Intelligent Application Platform either for APIs, widgets, or hosted applications, send us an e-mail to developers#linkedin.com telling us what you want to build and what you need to build it.
Since there are published Mashups using LinkedIn I would assume that means you can use the API even if the documentation isn't readily available.
As a tip, in the future include links to what you found that didn't work, so we know not to give it to you again.
I poked around a bit more and I found some more on their widgets which appears to be the main focus of their API.