Plug In Utilization

[Scott Derderian]

Does anyone have a method to determine how prevalent a given plugin is used in a given Confluence instance (either via Database or Content Interrogation)?

[Craig Castle-Mead · Accepted solution]

Hey Scott,

Depends what you mean by "prevalent". The below options are purely indicative only.

• Usage within the database - https://confluence.company.com/plugins/servlet/active-objects/tables/list
  • This lists all the AO (active objects) tables and how many rows are in each. Main issues to watch out for here is apps can have high use with low database rows (a UI side tool), low records with high business value, use a different storage mechanism completely (EazyBI)
  • Get grepping on your web-server logs!
    • You may not have logs for a long enough period of time (not enabled or log rotation on)
    • Figuring out the URL patterns that line up with each app can take some time. We've configured our Logstash environment to tag requests with the apps/actions based on URL patterns and so we can easily dashboard / report on usage. Each update means re-validating the patterns though.
• If your main driver is reviewing the usage to determine if it's worth renewing a set of apps, the above two options will hopefully give you some indication of usage though.

CCM