Automatic Visibility/Observability

Hi all,

For our business, we need to show how many times a specific url has been visited. 

I'm trying to make this visible with a dashboard widget ("big number" and "Chart: Time Series").

Now, it seems to me that we can only show the number of calls. Is this correct?

The problem here is that 1 request (URL) contains more than 1 call. So we need to do some extra filtering to have only 1 call for the specific request/URL, which can be avoided by showing the traces. 

How can I show the number of traces in a custom dashboard?

Thanks in advance for the feedback!

Hi Jurgen,

Specifically for your use case:

For our business, we need to show how many times a specific url has been visited.

You need to enable the EUM if not already, and use the Big Number with "Website Beacons", then use the unique sessions; in this scenario, all the calls to the URL count as one.

The ideal "how many times has been visited doesn't matter the sessions edition" will look like the screenshot below:

Then you can slice based on Location URL if needed

I hope this helps

Hi all,

For our business, we need to show how many times a specific url has been visited. 

I'm trying to make this visible with a dashboard widget ("big number" and "Chart: Time Series").

Now, it seems to me that we can only show the number of calls. Is this correct?

The problem here is that 1 request (URL) contains more than 1 call. So we need to do some extra filtering to have only 1 call for the specific request/URL, which can be avoided by showing the traces. 

How can I show the number of traces in a custom dashboard?

Thanks in advance for the feedback!

Hi Israel,

Thanks for the feedback! Currently, we are not able to activate the EUM on this application. This application is critical for the moment and we can not afford that the JavaScript breaks the website. (Beside this, we are investigating (with IBM Support ticket) in our test environment why the EUM is not automatically injected) 

In the meantime, we want to have statistics on how many times an URL has been requested. This is why I'm searching to show the number of traces (like mentioned in the dropdown list of the widget configuration: "Applications (Traces and Calls)")

Hopefully there is still a way to show the number of traces.

Hi Jurgen,

Specifically for your use case:

For our business, we need to show how many times a specific url has been visited.

You need to enable the EUM if not already, and use the Big Number with "Website Beacons", then use the unique sessions; in this scenario, all the calls to the URL count as one.

The ideal "how many times has been visited doesn't matter the sessions edition" will look like the screenshot below:

Then you can slice based on Location URL if needed

I hope this helps

Hi all,

For our business, we need to show how many times a specific url has been visited. 

I'm trying to make this visible with a dashboard widget ("big number" and "Chart: Time Series").

Now, it seems to me that we can only show the number of calls. Is this correct?

The problem here is that 1 request (URL) contains more than 1 call. So we need to do some extra filtering to have only 1 call for the specific request/URL, which can be avoided by showing the traces. 

How can I show the number of traces in a custom dashboard?

Thanks in advance for the feedback!