(mt) Stats Viewer uses the (mt) Stats module to show graphs of (nearly) realtime stats for MediaTemple webservers using the wonderful D3.
If you want to read more about how it works and some potential problems, there's a surprisingly (to me, at least) long post here.
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Get an API key for your MediaTemple server. You'll also need your service ID later, which you can get by visiting
https://api.mediatemple.net/api/v1/services/ids.json?apikey=XXXXX
(I only have one service ID as I have one server, but apparently you could see more.) -
Get a copy of Node.js. You can put (mt) Stats on your server if you want to access your stats from anywhere, or run it locally on your machine if you prefer. If you haven't got Node already and you're using Linux, there's an installation guide here. If you're running Windows or OSX then you can just download the installer from the Node site.
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Download (mt) Stats Viewer from Github and run
npm install
in the folder where you put it to get the packages it needs (list further down for reference). -
You should now have a copy of
mt-stats
. Rename the config filenode_modules/mt-stats/config/mt-stats-sample.json
tomt-stats.json
and change the service ID and API key to match your server and key. -
Rename the config file
config/app-sample.json
toapp.json
and change the URL and port.localPort
is the internal port on which the service runs andurl
is the external URL for the service. Also editgaAccount
andgaDomain
to match your Google Analytics details if you want to track usage. -
Run
app.js
and you should be good to go.
Please rename app-sample.json
to app.json
.
- localPort - Local port on which the app is running
- url - Public URL for the app
- mode -
development
uses uncompressed and (many) separate JavaScript files, whileproduction
uses Google's CDN for jQuery - title - Page title
- description - Meta description contents
- graphRanges - Timespans that are sent to the client for the range slider. Currently 5 mins - 1 week in ms
- author - Meta author contents
- jQueryCdnUrl - Yup
- gaAccount - Your Google Analytics account
- gaDomain - Your Google Analytics domain
Example
{
"localPort": 3000,
"url": "http://bits.meloncholy.com/mt-stats",
"mode": "production",
"title": "(mt) Stats",
"description": "Visualise your MediaTemple stats with some gorgeous D3 graphs.",
"graphRanges": [
300000,
600000,
900000,
1200000,
1500000,
1800000,
2700000,
3600000,
5400000,
7200000,
10800000,
14400000,
18000000,
21600000,
32400000,
43200000,
54000000,
64800000,
75600000,
86400000,
172800000,
259200000,
345600000,
432000000,
518400000,
604800000
],
"author": "Andrew Weeks",
"jQueryCdnUrl": "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8.0/jquery.min.js",
"gaAccount": "UA-XXXXXXXX-X",
"gaDomain": "meloncholy.com"
}
Copyright © 2012 Andrew Weeks http://meloncholy.com
(mt) Stats Viewer is licensed under the MIT licence.
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