I don't think there are any published best practices for something like this.  The community used to do a good job of publishing content for scenarios like this, but there are so many things to potentially integrate into DNN these days.  DNN includes a ton of ways to integrate other platforms/services.  In your case, I'd suggest looking at the events system in the API and start there. 

Another potential way could be to build a theme object that makes calls to the Fabric API using a client-side API call.  

No best practices, as Will said. But for statistics, everyone uses Google tag manager and/or Analytics. Alternatively, you can use Matomo / Piwik Pro As you are looking to get things to Fabric, you could also take a look at Microsoft Clarity.  Things might be easier to get in the data lake when it's all from the same vendor.

To get the number of user logins, you want to use the DNN Api to get things in Fabric.

Cheers

Tycho

In older DNN versions there was a site log you could enable on host level. It showed the basic statistics of the website: link click, visited pages, user login etc... I can't find it anymore? no interface? Is the data still available in database tables?

Posted By Willem on 12/3/2024 12:59 AM In older DNN versions there was a site log you could enable on host level. It showed the basic statistics of the website: link click, visited pages, user login etc... I can't find it anymore? no interface? Is the data still available in database tables?

This was the former Site Log module that you're referring to.  It since had been removed from DNN and put into its own repository as an optional extension you can install.  

DNN Site Log Module

However, you should know that the primary reason this was removed is two-fold: 

1. Third-party options that work better are way too plentiful and easy to integrated into DNN. 
2. Doing the Site Log processing on the same site can cause major performance issues and/or require you to upgrade your server resources sooner than would otherwise be necessary. 

 

You could also use DNNCommunity/Dnn.WebAnalytics. Find an example here: DNN Community Website Metrics ;-)

Happy DNNing! Michael

I assume this works on the sitelog table? It's empty... how do I enable sitelog so the tables get filled with data? no interface options anymore... in database (host settings)?

Tried this but sitelog table still empty: INSERT INTO HostSettings (SettingName, SettingValue, CreatedByUserID, CreatedOnDate, LastModifiedByUserID, LastModifiedOnDate) VALUES ('EnableSiteLog', 'True', -1, GETDATE(), -1, GETDATE()); INSERT INTO PortalSettings (PortalID, SettingName, SettingValue, CreatedByUserID, CreatedOnDate, LastModifiedByUserID, LastModifiedOnDate) VALUES (3, 'EnableSiteLog', 'True', -1, GETDATE(), -1, GETDATE()); INSERT INTO PortalSettings (PortalID, SettingName, SettingValue, CreatedByUserID, CreatedOnDate, LastModifiedByUserID, LastModifiedOnDate) VALUES (3, 'SiteLogHistory', '1', -1, GETDATE(), -1, GETDATE());