GitLab Analyze:Product Analytics Team Meetings, 7 Mar 2023

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From YouTube: Product Analytics Demo Mar 2023

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Overview of the current state of Product Analytics

Direction Page: https://about.gitlab.com/direction/analytics/product-analytics/

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Hi I'm James teibach product manager for the product analytics group at gitlab today, I wanted to give a quick overview of the product in analytics category and where we're at today, as we get ready to onboard our first external users to our output release so before getting into the demo. I wanted to cover a little bit about why we're building this at gitlab a gitlab, we're focused on developers and the software delivery value stream.

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uh Common thing that we've heard from the developers in discussions with them is that they find it hard to add instrumentation code to apps or to successfully gather the data that's being recorded from their apps. So we think we have a unique opportunity to make it easier for developers to add instrument agent code and to gather those insights about the users of their application.

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A simple use case for that might be a team who has an internal blog and they want to know how many visitors that's getting, or they have a multi-plage float or an internal app, and they want to see how it's converted and where they might be able to make it easier for users to submit their request or to do the tasks that they want to do so today, in the product, analytics lifecycle, we're at our internal preview stage and we're starting to use product analytics to measure both audience and behavior in our internal handbook.

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So I wanted to show a little of what we've developed so far.

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So this is a simple application that Sam of the group manager for product analytics has put together it's created and it uses the JavaScript SDK for product analytics and the feature flag is enabled uh for this project. So, looking at the code here, we can see that the gitlab SDK here and looking at our static HTML. We see that we have the script here, defining our application, ID and the host, where we're Gathering our statistics app.

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We look at the page itself, nice, simple, page, static, HTML, have a click event and refreshing. It's going to give its new page view.

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So, looking at our dashboard, which is here under analytics, but what we have an audience and a behavior dashboard and we can set up custom dashboards as well for our audience, dashboard is tracking our users and session, as well as some of the browser data for us. We can see that everyone so far is using Chrome, and you see that we have three users today. A total of seven sessions, quick refresh here and refresh on our dashboard, should get us empty teeth.

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I view the page, the browser.

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And give it a refresh see a fourth user and now we're up to eight on our sessions over time.

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We see our additional browser history, our browser data now about my support recession, so looking at our other dashboard around Behavior, we're tracking our events, which in this case is our click on the button we have 24 so far today, quick click event. There look at that over in my Safari session.

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And we get up to 26., so just some simple tracking that we have so far built in and, as you can see, you're going to find your additional dashboards.

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um Sam has defined here and all of the dashboards are defined as yaml files and you can host them with the app itself or you can Define it in another project. If you want to store those dashboards somewhere else, but all of them are in here add part of your git history. So you can see the history of the dashboard as it might be changing over time as you're adding new intermentation. You can also add it to the dashboard so that immediately, you can start to see that data coming through.

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So it makes a little bit easier to validate that the data is doing what you intend.

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So we hope that you're as excited about this new product area, as we are, if you're interested in applying to be part of the alpha program, you can fill out the interest form while effective and you can always follow, along with our progress of new features and capabilities on the gitlab and filtered YouTube channel. Thanks.