We have added support for dashboard channel tracking in our latest release. Instructions for how to instrument your application to track the dashboard channels is available here. The RESTful API reference page has been updated with the two new API calls (‘message sent’ and ‘message response’) that have been added to enable this tracking.
The Kontagent Team
Release 1.16 is out.
We are very excited to announce the a new feature called Custom Dashboard that allows you to create your own customized dashboard pages from any of the time series data that is used in any of our graphs. This feature allows you to add multiple data series to a graph, to mix and match various time series data by adding, subtracting, multiple and dividing data sources from one another. It is even possible to offset a data source by a certain number of days and either graph or combine it with other data source. Here are some examples of the types of things you can do with custom charts.
Subtype filtering – With the subtype A/B testing framework we currently have in place, it is not possible, for example, to see how certain subtypes for invites perform over time. With custom charts, it is possible to graph the number of messages sent, or received of a certain subtype over time. To do this, follow these steps:
Now you have a graph that displays an event by subtype filter over time.
Installs Growth over the last 7 Days – Often time, you want to see how a given metric performs over a your historical baseline. Given the very weekly cyclic nature of Facebook applications, one of the easiest ways to do this is to compare the same day last week. With custom charts, you can do this very easily. You could graph the percentage daily uniques growth vs. 7 days ago. To do this with the custom charts, you would:
Now the resulting graph will show how your application installs has grown over the last 7 days!
Total Invites and Stream Installs – Another example is if you want to create a custom metrics. This could be something as simple as the total number of daily installs from Invites and Streams. To create this custom chart:
We believe custom charts is an extremely powerful tool and we will be continuing to add features and functionality to it to make it even more flexible and useful.
Release 1.15 has just been deployed. This is a minor release as we’re preparing for some fairly major feature additions over the next couple of versions. Here is a list of the changes to Release 1.15:
As always, feedback is welcome. Look for some major feature announcements coming soon!
The Kontagent Team
Happy holidays from Kontagent!
For the last few weeks, we’ve been hard at work on this latest update, version 1.14. We’re happy to announce that we’ve released it just in time for New Years!! This version has some very significant updates such as a long list of UI tweaks, the added ability to support data export of graphs, upgrades to the test server and many bug fixes. Below you will find more details on each of these updates:
We hope you enjoy the new release. We hope you had a very merry Christmas and have a great New Year!
The Kontagent Team
Release 1.12 include a new feature called Integration Reports (available under Tools->Integration Reports) which is a tool that allows you to validate your live data to ensure your app is instrumented correctly. We have also added in feed channels to the Viral Optimizer as well as some fixes to the viral optimizer.
Happy Thanksgiving!
The Kontagent Team
Some fixes have been make to the new test server in addition to some cleanup of the REST API documentation. Deprecated parameters where removed from both the new test server and the REST API documentation. This does not affect current users. The fixes are as follow:
You may also notice that we’ve switched the Feedback tab on all the pages to the Zendesk version which integrated with our Zendesk support system.
As part of our effort to make integrating Kontagent easier, we’ve just released a revamped version of our test server which allows you to verify your instrumentation more fully. The biggest issue with our old test server system was that, while you could verify that you passed us data and what parameters we actually received, the test server never gave any feedback as to whether the message and the parameters were correct or incorrect.
We’re proud to announce today that we have launched a brand new test server that now includes error checking in addition to numerous other improvements. As part of the new interface, we’ve also made a list of all the different types of API calls that Kontagent supports and highlight whether or not that message type (invites sent, page views, posts, etc.) have been tested already and whether or not there are errors with these messages.
The new test server is available under Tools (main navigation bar) -> Test Server. Here’s a direct link to the test server as well.
We hope you find it helpful in the instrumentation process. As always, feedback is welcome.
As you’ve probably noticed, we’ve overhauled the MyApps page. One of the issues we were always having was that we had no way of updating you (the developers) on the many new features and fixes that we’ve been making to Kontagent. With this new release, we finally have somewhere to post updates about the product which we will now do on a consistent basis.
In this release, we made the following updates to Kontagent:
Look for plenty more updates coming soon!
Release 1.7 includes two fairly major feature additions: Monthly and Weekly Retention Analysis and a new User Management System.
Retention Analysis – User retention metrics are critical to understanding how engaged your users are and how to improve your application’s user lifetime. This new features provides month over month percentage returning users grouped by monthly installs cohorts retention metrics and week over week returning users grouped by weekly install cohorts as well. Retention Analysis is only available in the Premium Analytics package.
User Management – The new user management feature allows you to grant extremely granular access to each of the users in the system. You can set up the system to show only certain tabs to certain user, or grant users full administrative access. To access the new User Management system, to go “Account“->”Manage Users“. Please note that you can also access this tab if you have account management privileges.