About

This CakePHP plugin provide a simple but powerfull way to monitor metrics on associated models. Lets give some use case examples:

• monitor the views of a blog post
• monitor the clicks of a picture
• monitor the likes of something

Installation

$  git submodule add [email protected]:sassman/monitoring.git app/plugins/monitoring
$  git submodule init
$  git submodule update

now install the schema to your database look at

app/plugins/monitoring/config/schema/install.sql

Usage

• Configuration

we configure the post model to include the 2 metrics 'view' and 'like'.

class Post extends AppModel {
    public $actsAs = array(
        'monitoring.Monitorable' => array('type' => array(
            'like',
            'view',
        )),
    );
}

• Usage to monitor metrics

on the PostsController::view method we want to monitor the 'view' metrics

class PostsController extends AppController {
    public function view( $id ){
        // a post is viewed, so lets track this as a metric like this
        $this->Post->monitor(array('type' => 'view', 'id' => $id));
    }
}

• Review the metrics

in the posts view we want to show the monitored metrics

<!-- app/views/posts/view.ctp -->
This post was <?php echo $post['Post']['views'] ?> viewed
This post has <?php echo $post['Post']['likes'] ?> likes

Performance

• Some thougths about the performance

for best performance the behavior cache each metrics. If the monitor function is called, the cache (only for this metrics by metric-type, model, id) is updated.