Capturing Usage Statistics of Custom Grasshopper Components

I'm trying to integrate capture of usage data into different grasshopper component libraries I have developed in visual studio. That is, I want to know how often users are running each of my components. Colleagues of mine have a means of doing this for other projects in visual studio, where we are just recording time-stamps in a csv as a routine is executed, and then displaying data in highcharts (http://www.highcharts.com/). However, when I attempt to include the same couple lines of code within my grasshopper component module, I get miscellaneous errors kicked back at me depending on how I integrate it.

This is a blind spot for me, so I wanted to survey the crowd. Is there anyone in the community who has tried to implement similar methods to capture usage data for their work? I'd be keen to hear how you went about doing it.

Cheers,

Tom

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Permalink Reply by Max Marschall on April 1, 2017 at 11:20pm

Hi Thomas, this has been a while but do you remember how/if you solved it?

Permalink Reply by Andrew Heumann on April 2, 2017 at 1:29am

You could rely on something like analytics.net from segment - we use this to collect blanket analytics on gh usage at our firm, but you could trigger it from particular components as well. But this relies on there being an active web connection (and all the concurrent error checking to make sure the connection is available)

Permalink Reply by Max Marschall on April 2, 2017 at 4:33am

Sounds tricky but good to know it's possible, thanks!

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