track your api usage using google universal analytycs

Usage

$ npm install universal-analytics-api-middleware --save

in your app.js

            require('universal-analytics-api-middleware')({
                    "GA_TOKEN":"UA-09340980345",                     // your analytics token
                    "GA_BUFFERTIME": 5000,                           // buffer events and only send every 5 secs
                    "name":"myapi", 
                    "ignore":'[\.]',                                 // dont report files
                    "context":process                                // object to bind 'ua' to
            })

Features

• buffers high volume of requests, and pushes in batch to analytics (instead of rightaway)
• automatically track api calls & responsetime as pageviews
• easily track your own events

Basically each request is buffered, and sent as google analytics events every GA_BUFFERTIME milliseconds.

You can view realtime requests at Realtime > Events, or create dashboards to sort/display the events.

NOTE: you can add events to analytics, anywhere from within deployd :

process.ua.event("action name", "label/value")      // buffered event (adviced)
process.ua.timing("category", "actionname", 12)     // buffered event (adviced)
console.error("something went wrong")               // sends exception 
process.ua.visitor                                  // universal analytics object for unbuffered use 

}

for more info on ua usage see docs

NOTE: this module also tracks the processing time of each request (see 'Server Response Time' in google analytics pageviews)