Statistics
What Identica sends to bStats and FastStats, what it never sends, and how to turn it off.
Identica sends anonymous usage statistics to bStats and FastStats, and reports its own errors to FastStats. They show which setups are in use and which errors happen, so bugs can be fixed without anyone sending logs.
Both services are configured outside Identica, in files they share with every other plugin that uses them. Nothing is sent on a proxy's first start with FastStats; it only creates its file then.
Turn statistics off
| Service | File | Setting |
|---|---|---|
| bStats | plugins/bStats/config.txt | enabled=false |
| FastStats | plugins/faststats/config.properties | enabled=false turns off everything, submitErrors=false only error reports |
Restart the proxy after changing a file. Identica works the same with statistics off.
What is sent
Every 30 minutes, each service receives:
| Statistic | Values |
|---|---|
providers | the providers that are enabled: credential, premium, and custom for any other |
features | the features enabled for at least one provider, such as verification |
verification_methods | the built-in verification methods registered, and custom for any other |
persistence_type, replication_type | the database type and whether Redis replication is on |
unique_id_mode, session_concurrency | the values of uniqueIdMode and concurrencyPolicy |
authentications, registrations, migrations | how many ended since the last submission, by result: completed, failed, denied, cancelled, expired |
logins_by_provider | completed logins since the last submission, by provider: credential, premium, and custom for any other |
sessions_opened | how many sessions opened since the last submission |
client_versions | the players online on the proxy, counted by the Minecraft version of their client |
account_count, provider_usage | how many accounts are stored, in total and by provider |
verified_accounts | how many accounts have a verification method such as TOTP enabled |
The services add what they collect from every plugin, such as the proxy's version, player count, Java version and operating system.
When several proxies share a database, only one of them sends account_count, provider_usage and verified_accounts, so accounts are not counted once per proxy.
The proxies agree on it through the identica_statistics_lease table; when that proxy stops, another one takes over.
What is never sent
- player names, unique ids, IP addresses, passwords or anything else a player entered
- server names, host names, addresses or other values from your configuration
- the id or name of a provider, feature or verification method that is not part of Identica
Error reports
When Identica logs an error caused by a bug in its own code or in its official providers, FastStats receives the error's type, message and stack trace, and the log message it belongs to. Before it leaves the proxy:
- the player names, unique ids and other values of the log message are removed from the error's messages
- unique ids, e-mail addresses, IP addresses and the values a database puts into its error messages are hidden
- errors of third-party providers and other plugins are left out
- a database or Redis that cannot be reached, or refuses its credentials, is left out, because that is a setup problem
At most 100 errors are reported per 30 minutes.