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dnepr
Posts: 723
Registered: 03-12-2009

Data getting lost?

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I've been doing a lot of testing with this API over the week and noticed that almost 95% of data did not make it through to the web portal this past Friday.

 

I had logging enabled, it showed that all the data made it through to webtrends, but none of it is showing up in reports or dashboard.

 

Today it seems to be working ok.

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twindsor
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Registered: 07-15-2008
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Re: Data getting lost?

There is at least a 24 hour delay between when the data is sent to the time that it is processed and aggregated into the dashboard. Would that explain what you are seeing, or do you have missing data from longer ago?

Tim Windsor
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dnepr
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Re: Data getting lost?

The data from Friday is still missing (from reports and dashboard) and new data is already showing up (i.e. data from Today) like nothing happened.

I noticed the 24 hour delay for reports, but the Dashboard seems to update within 10 minutes or so.

I just realized that I did not specify the date. Sorry, it only happened on this last Friday. We got all data for the whole week, Friday about 5% of the data, and all data is going through Today.
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twindsor
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Re: Data getting lost?

Okay, I'm checking with Webtrends on what might be happening and what is necessary to analyze it.

Tim Windsor
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twindsor
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Re: Data getting lost?

Can you email me at twindsor@rim.com and provide either your DCS or the email that your Analytics account was created under? Webtrends needs to look up your account to find the problem.

Tim Windsor
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dnepr
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Re: Data getting lost?

Email sent.

Thank you.
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twindsor
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Re: Data getting lost?

Webtrends did not see the data hit their servers during the time period that you were missing the data from. They report that if the device is unable to make a connection, it will queue up events to a certain point. When that limit is reached, it starts to remove older entries. Also, it limits how many times it tries to send data. Webtrends suspects that network coverage is likely the cause of this.

 

The settings are in the config.xml:

wt_dc_event_table_size_maximum is the maximum table size and defaults to 10000.  If this fills up, we will trim off older events, not stop collecting new data.  I believe we also remove the 10 oldest events so as not have to call the trimming process for every event once it's hit 10000.

wt_dc_event_retry_maximum is the max number of times to try sending the data and defaults to 5.  I've been advised that after 3 tries, we do have the SDK wait and try again at a later point.

Tim Windsor
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