Statistics Dashboard Architecture Discussion Meeting

Attendees

Overview of project

Discussion Points:

What is specific about our project?
Sue asked: are there projects/apps that can do the work we want without creating one off apps?
- Can Google Analytics work for us?
  - We mentioned that REST API's don't
- Planning on setting up GA in an enterprise setting at NCI.
Scott gave overview of what our requirements are, reviewing different applications out there.
- SiteStats
- Government Analytics site
  - https://analytics.usa.gov/?=dg
- ELK - Scott gave overview of our preliminary architecture diagram.
- Sumo Logic - for log aggregation
  - Larry/Sue mentioned that it may be able to use within NCI in a month or two.
  - Similar to filebeats (to collect data)
  - Ability to visualize data in a dashboard (like Kabana)
Larry mentioned that anyone with an API/website would want this dashboard
Sue mentioned PowerBI may be able to do the dashboard capabilities.
- NCI has a whole site license for PowerBI.
- There are NCI classes to learn PowerBI.
- She can send links out if interested.
Sue suggested a possible solution using the following:
- Sumo Logic - log aggregation
- PowerBI - Dashboard - visualization tool for the data
We will need to specify how long the access logs need to be available.
We may need to provide authentication into the dashboard tool.
- PowerBI has LDAP integrated in it already.

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