Google analytics in the Atlassian SDK

[vmpn]

What is this google analytics tracker error that I get when debuging bamboo plugin?

2109 [AnalyticsThread-1] ERROR com.dmurph.tracking.JGoogleAnalyticsTracker - Error making tracking request

java.net.SocketException: Connection reset

at java.net.SocketInputStream.read(SocketInputStream.java:168)

at java.io.BufferedInputStream.fill(BufferedInputStream.java:218)

at java.io.BufferedInputStream.read1(BufferedInputStream.java:258)

at java.io.BufferedInputStream.read(BufferedInputStream.java:317)

at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.parseHTTPHeader(HttpClient.java:695)

at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.parseHTTP(HttpClient.java:640)

at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.parseHTTP(HttpClient.java:660)

at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(HttpURLConnection.java:1195)

at java.net.HttpURLConnection.getResponseCode(HttpURLConnection.java:379)

at com.dmurph.tracking.JGoogleAnalyticsTracker.dispatchRequest(JGoogleAnalyticsTracker.java:464)

at com.dmurph.tracking.JGoogleAnalyticsTracker.access$100(JGoogleAnalyticsTracker.java:76)

at com.dmurph.tracking.JGoogleAnalyticsTracker$1.run(JGoogleAnalyticsTracker.java:431)

Thank you

[James Dumay · Accepted solution]

Its mentioned in the SDK logs:

[INFO] Google Analytics Tracking is enabled to collect AMPS usage statistics.
[INFO] Although no personal information is sent, you may disable tracking by adding <allowGoogleTracking>false</allowGoogleTracking> to the amps plugin configuration in your pom.xml

Is this preventing you from running SDK commands?

[David at David Simpson Apps]

@James Dumay: What sort of stats are being collected by AMPS? Is there a Confluence page that describes this and how to enable/disable it? In which version of AMPS was this added?

[jnolen]

We added the Google Analytics in 3.6 (or maybe 3.6.1). We're recording (in aggregate) the number of times certain commands are executed, like "atlas-create-jira-plugin". This helps us know how the community is using the SDK and where we should focus our development effort.

[vmpn]

Online mode behind firewall.

[brainicorn]

It was "officially" released in AMPS 3.6.2 and was included as a bullet in the release notes.

I'm going to add some more documentation around the specifics.

Currently, the tracker logs errors, but does not fail the build. The error given was due to a networking issue when trying to connect to google. Was this specific build run in offline mode or without a network connection to the outside world?

[brainicorn]

Maybe the firewall is the issue? If you keep getting the error in the log, I would just turn it off as stated above by adding

<allowGoogleTracking>false</allowGoogleTracking>

Under the configuration tag of the bamboo-amps-plugin

[Jan Hlavatý]

This is a creepy feature. It needs to be opt-in, not default.

[brainicorn]

It doesn't send any user information. It's just for tracking how many sdks are in use on various OSes.

[Jan Hlavatý]

If it asked first, and told me what and why, I'd be much happer than now that I learn about it from the log that says it has sent something out to "google analytics". I don't expect my build scripts to send out anything, period.

[jnolen]

I also filed this error here: https://studio.atlassian.com/browse/AMPS-632

[vmpn]

Among other messages I did not see this one. No it did not cause an issue, but it did appear that way as after displaying this exception maven took a while to progress to next step.

Thank you,

Vladimir