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Secure and track every change to your Piwik installation with the Activity Log plugin
14 novembre 2017, par InnoCraft — PluginsAre you wondering how your colleagues are using Piwik? Would you like to know if an unauthorized user got an access to your installation? Would you like to remember the last actions you performed in Piwik some weeks ago? At InnoCraft, we developed a plugin called “Activity Log”. With this feature you can easily track and check all major changes to your Piwik websites, for example: user permissions, goals, and funnels. In this article we will show you the different ways you can use it and explain why it is an invaluable plugin.
Activity log for better security
The activity log feature has been designed for security. Also referred to as “audit logging” or “audit trail”, with this plugin you will be able to:
- detect any suspicious actions
- detect hacker attacks
- help identify performance problems
- see clearly who did what, and when
- find out how people are using Piwik within your company
1 – detect any suspicious actions
With audit trail you can easily identify if a former employee still has access to your Piwik installation. You will then be able to know when he accessed it for the last time, and what changes she or he performed. If you got hacked, you will be able to find out if the user created, changed, or deleted any website, goals, or did anything else suspicious.
2 – detect hacker attacks
When an unregistered user is trying to access your Piwik, each failed login attempt is registered within the Activity Log report.
3 – help identify performance problems
Activity Log can help you identify performance problems by registering the sequence of each major action a user performed. For example, if a user updated or installed a third party plugin, and suddenly Piwik is getting performance problems, then it is likely that the plugin update caused it.
4 – see clearly who did what, and when
It is always challenging in an organization to know who did what and when. With Activity Log, you will know who were the employee(s) that accessed Piwik, created, updated, or deleted a goal, a funnel, a scheduled report, and much more.
5- find out how people are using Piwik within your company
By having a look at how people are using Piwik you will have an overview of how your colleagues use Piwik. For example, you can see who is creating Custom segments to analyse the audience in more details, who is creating funnels to learn where your users drop off. You will then be able to identify who has the knowledge and who needs training.
Did you know?
You can help the Piwik core team make Piwik even better by sharing anonymously how you use Piwik on a day to day basis. You just need to install the following plugin: http://plugins.piwik.org/AnonymousPiwikUsageMeasurement
What’s in it?
Once downloaded and installed from the marketplace, you will be able to access the activity log from the admin panel within the diagnostic section:
If you are logged as a super user administrator, you will get an overview and a detailed report about who accessed Piwik and which actions they performed.
Those reports are critical as they allow the super user to:
- ensure users are following all documented procedures within your organization such as naming conventions for reports, using the right settings when adding measurables…
- identify suspicious behavior. As those reports are gathering all major Piwik users activities it is easy to identify non conventional behavior.
- replay the sequence some users went through in order to fix any potential issues.
Activity log view report you can access through the admin panel
So you will see in a second if an unusual user got access to Piwik and the different actions the user performed.
It is also a good way to see the features that your users are using and identify potential misuse.As a regular user or admin, activity log is providing only the historical actions that this user performed:
Actions listed in the log include any changes (add, edit, delete) to the following features (this is a non exhaustive list):
- Annotation
- Custom Alert
- Custom Dimension
- Goal
- Privacy settings
- Scheduled report
- Segment
- User
- Website
- …
This is a ideal to remember the actions they previously performed some weeks/months ago.
Where can I start from here?
Activity log is a premium feature you can acquire through the Piwik marketplace. If you want to experience it before purchasing it, you can try it for free on our cloud infrastructure.
Activity log is just one out of the many great premium features developed by InnoCraft, the company founded by the creators of Piwik. Discover all their special plugins through the premium marketplace.
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Secure and track every change to your Matomo installation with the Activity Log plugin
14 novembre 2017, par InnoCraft — PluginsAre you wondering how your colleagues are using Matomo (Piwik)? Would you like to know if an unauthorized user got an access to your installation? Would you like to remember the last actions you performed in Matomo some weeks ago? At InnoCraft, we developed a plugin called “Activity Log”. With this feature you can easily track and check all major changes to your Matomo websites, for example: user permissions, goals, and funnels. In this article we will show you the different ways you can use it and explain why it is an invaluable plugin.
Activity log for better security
The activity log feature has been designed for security. Also referred to as “audit logging” or “audit trail”, with this plugin you will be able to:
- detect any suspicious actions
- detect hacker attacks
- help identify performance problems
- see clearly who did what, and when
- find out how people are using Matomo (Piwik) within your company
1 – detect any suspicious actions
With audit trail you can easily identify if a former employee still has access to your Matomo (Piwik) installation. You will then be able to know when he accessed it for the last time, and what changes she or he performed. If you got hacked, you will be able to find out if the user created, changed, or deleted any website, goals, or did anything else suspicious.
2 – detect hacker attacks
When an unregistered user is trying to access your Matomo (Piwik), each failed login attempt is registered within the Activity Log report.
3 – help identify performance problems
Activity Log can help you identify performance problems by registering the sequence of each major action a user performed. For example, if a user updated or installed a third party plugin, and suddenly Matomo (Piwik) is getting performance problems, then it is likely that the plugin update caused it.
4 – see clearly who did what, and when
It is always challenging in an organization to know who did what and when. With Activity Log, you will know who were the employee(s) that accessed Matomo (Piwik), created, updated, or deleted a goal, a funnel, a scheduled report, and much more.
5- find out how people are using Matomo within your company
By having a look at how people are using Matomo (Piwik) you will have an overview of how your colleagues use Matomo. For example, you can see who is creating Custom segments to analyse the audience in more details, who is creating funnels to learn where your users drop off. You will then be able to identify who has the knowledge and who needs training.
Did you know?
You can help the Matomo (Piwik) core team make Matomo even better by sharing anonymously how you use Matomo on a day to day basis. You just need to install the following plugin: http://plugins.matomo.org/AnonymousPiwikUsageMeasurement
What’s in it?
Once downloaded and installed from the marketplace, you will be able to access the activity log from the admin panel within the diagnostic section:
If you are logged as a super user administrator, you will get an overview and a detailed report about who accessed Matomo (Piwik) and which actions they performed.
Those reports are critical as they allow the super user to:
- ensure users are following all documented procedures within your organization such as naming conventions for reports, using the right settings when adding measurables…
- identify suspicious behavior. As those reports are gathering all major Matomo (Piwik) users activities it is easy to identify non conventional behavior.
- replay the sequence some users went through in order to fix any potential issues.
Activity log view report you can access through the admin panel
So you will see in a second if an unusual user got access to Matomo (Piwik) and the different actions the user performed.
It is also a good way to see the features that your users are using and identify potential misuse.As a regular user or admin, activity log is providing only the historical actions that this user performed:
Actions listed in the log include any changes (add, edit, delete) to the following features (this is a non exhaustive list):
- Annotation
- Custom Alert
- Custom Dimension
- Goal
- Privacy settings
- Scheduled report
- Segment
- User
- Website
- …
This is a ideal to remember the actions they previously performed some weeks/months ago.
Where can I start from here?
Activity log is a premium feature you can acquire through the Matomo (Piwik) marketplace. If you want to experience it before purchasing it, you can try it for free on our cloud infrastructure.
Activity log is just one out of the many great premium features developed by InnoCraft, the company founded by the creators of Matomo. Discover all their special plugins through the premium marketplace.
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Power-Up your Piwik installation with Custom Reports
13 novembre 2017, par InnoCraft — PluginsWould you like to create a report in Piwik with just the data you want and nothing else? Would you like to be free to decide the shape of it? Are you struggling with the Piwik database and wish you could have an easy interface to create the report you want? Are you tired of exporting your data in a spreadsheet? Since last October, there’s a solution and it’s called Custom Reports.
With custom reports you will:
- get a user-friendly interface to create the report you wish
- see all the possible combinations to create the report you desire
- reveal new data combinations which were not directly available in Piwik
User friendly interface
The time when you created your reports from MySQL database is over. Now with custom reports you can create the report you want and get the data you need in just a few seconds.
Custom reports are part of the main user interface. You can access them in just one click:
As you can see from above the interface is straightforward, just indicate the name of your report and start to select the dimensions and metrics you would like to see.
See all the possible combinations to create the report you desire
As a user the big question has always been, how much data does Piwik collect and where can I find a list of all those data points? Here you have the solution. Piwik is gathering in custom reports all the possible combinations so you can select only the data you want:
Creating such a report is going to take you no more than a minute. As with any reports within Piwik, you can easily get information regarding the specific data you are using by hovering your mouse on the question mark next to each dimension and metric:
Make new combinations which were not directly available in Piwik
By default, not all combinations are possible within the Piwik user interface. Now thanks to Custom Reports, you can easily design the report you want. Here is for example a report crossing page titles and page url:
You can then identify if there are any duplicate titles within your content and see the associated URL in a single report.
You could also identify easily what are your most viewed entry page from Google:
Custom reports can also be used with segments and filters in order to get even more specific data.
Here we have an example of a custom report designed to take into consideration only the visits coming from Wikipedia:
What is the next step?
As you understood it, Piwik custom reports is the must-have plugin in order to take your Piwik to the next level. Why wait? Piwik custom reports are available through the marketplace.
If you are not sure yet, you can always give it a try within our Piwik Cloud infrastructure.
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Power-Up your Matomo installation with Custom Reports
13 novembre 2017, par InnoCraft — PluginsWould you like to create a report in Matomo (Piwik) with just the data you want and nothing else? Would you like to be free to decide the shape of it? Are you struggling with the Matomo database and wish you could have an easy interface to create the report you want? Are you tired of exporting your data in a spreadsheet? Since last October, there’s a solution and it’s called Custom Reports.
With custom reports you will:
- get a user-friendly interface to create the report you wish
- see all the possible combinations to create the report you desire
- reveal new data combinations which were not directly available in Matomo (Piwik)
User friendly interface
The time when you created your reports from MySQL database is over. Now with custom reports you can create the report you want and get the data you need in just a few seconds.
Custom reports are part of the main user interface. You can access them in just one click:
As you can see from above the interface is straightforward, just indicate the name of your report and start to select the dimensions and metrics you would like to see.
See all the possible combinations to create the report you desire
As a user the big question has always been, how much data does Matomo (Piwik) collect and where can I find a list of all those data points? Here you have the solution. Matomo is gathering in custom reports all the possible combinations so you can select only the data you want:
Creating such a report is going to take you no more than a minute. As with any reports within Matomo (Piwik), you can easily get information regarding the specific data you are using by hovering your mouse on the question mark next to each dimension and metric:
Make new combinations which were not directly available in Matomo
By default, not all combinations are possible within the Matomo (Piwik) user interface. Now thanks to Custom Reports, you can easily design the report you want. Here is for example a report crossing page titles and page url:
You can then identify if there are any duplicate titles within your content and see the associated URL in a single report.
You could also identify easily what are your most viewed entry page from Google:
Custom reports can also be used with segments and filters in order to get even more specific data.
Here we have an example of a custom report designed to take into consideration only the visits coming from Wikipedia:
What is the next step?
As you understood it, Matomo (Piwik) custom reports is the must-have plugin in order to take your Matomo to the next level. Why wait? Matomo custom reports are available through the marketplace.
If you are not sure yet, you can always give it a try within our Matomo Cloud (formerly Piwik Cloud) infrastructure.
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Piwik SSO options and why is it useful ?
8 novembre 2017, par Piwik Core Team — PluginsBored with typing again and again different logins and passwords for each service you have access to? Would you like to add hundreds or thousands of users with different roles to your Piwik at once? Would you like to save time and effort of managing your users while increasing the security in your business? Guess what, Piwik has come up with great features to do just that.
But what is a SSO?
Before introducing you to new Piwik features, let me explain what a SSO is.
SSO is the acronym for Single Sign On. As its name suggests this authentication process allows a user to access multiple applications with one set of login credentials.Advantages of using a SSO are numerous:
- improving security, for example when an employee is leaving your company, how can you check that all his credentials have been removed?
- reducing employees time-wasters such as having to enter logins/passwords each time.
- providing a centralized database for administrators. They can then easily manage permissions of all employees saving them heaps of time.
- reduces support costs related to authentication / accounts management.
In order to provide SSO options, two Piwik plugins have been developed and are available on the marketplace:
SAML
SAML stands for “Security Assertion Markup Language”, it is a standard in order to exchange authentication and authorization between an identity provider (OneLogin, Okta, Ping Identity, ADFS, Google, Salesforce, SharePoint…) and a service provider.
An identity provider is an online service that authenticates users on the Internet by using security tokens.Are you wondering if your business or organization is using any of these providers? We recommend to ask your operations team or sysadmin.
At InnoCraft, we developed a plugin in order to allow SSO with SAML for Piwik. It can ensure consistent access control across the enterprise and external providers, potentially reducing support costs related to authentication and accounts management.
The installation process is straightforward. All you need is to get the SAML premium feature from the marketplace. Once installed, you will access the SAML configuration interface through the admin where you can configure various settings:
- SAML Status
- Identity Provider (Entity ID, SSO endpoint info, Public x509 certificate)
- Just-in-time provisioning and Mapping attributes
- Access Synchronization
- Advanced settings
From there you will need to follow our detailed documentation to have it up and running:
https://piwik.org/docs/login-saml/.
Once finished, you will then be able to use SAML to authenticate to your Piwik account:
As all premium features, SAML is eligible to a 30-day period money back guarantee, so do not hesitate to have it a try.
LDAP
LDAP stands for Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. As its names implies LDAP is a directory, hosted on a server, which organizes the data about people in your company.
Thanks to the LDAP plugin, Piwik can be connected to your LDAP infrastructure and then use all its power in order to give each individual an access with different rights according to their needs.Let’s say that you have 1,000 employees within a company and they all need right now an access to the analytics reports in Piwik with different roles. This is what LDAP can do.
Moreover if your business or organization is already using LDAP, we recommend using the LDAP connector for Piwik for better security, to stop wasting time of your users and sysadmins, and to reduce the costs related to account management.
You understood it well. LDAP is a plugin which saves a LOT of time within an organization. Here is a preview of the settings part:
LDAP has been developed by the Piwik core team and is available as a Free plugin on the marketplace.
If you are surprised by the possibilities that Piwik is offering in terms of plugins, the good news is that many other plugins are waiting for you on the marketplace. Check out our premium marketplace which offers state-of-the-art plugins to get the most out of Piwik.
And if you are a developer feel free to create your own plugin, a detailed documentation is available at: https://developer.piwik.org/guides/getting-started-part-1.
