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• Piwik 2 reaches end of life soon (December 2017), update now !

  7 décembre 2017, par Piwik Core Team — Community

  In less than three weeks, Piwik 2 will be no longer supported. This means that no further (security) updates will be released for this version. As per our Long Term Support announcement, Piwik 2.X is supported for 12 months after the initial release of Piwik 3.0.0 which was on December 18th 2016. Therefore, Piwik 2 will no longer receive any updates after December 18th 2017.

  It has been almost a year since we released Piwik 3 and we highly recommend updating to Piwik 3 ASAP. The major new release came with a new UI, performance and security improvements. If you are still on Piwik 2, the security improvements alone should be worth updating your Piwik to Piwik 3 now. We cannot recommend this enough.

  The update to Piwik 3 should be smooth, but may take a while depending on the amount of data you have.

  • If you have any problem with the update, feel free to get in touch with us, or ask in the forums.
  • If you are currently using Piwik self-hosted and would like to be upgraded, plus your Piwik managed in the official Cloud-hosted service, contact InnoCraft Cloud and they will migrate your database.

  At Piwik and InnoCraft, the company of the makers of Piwik, we have seen many thousands of Piwik installations upgraded over the past year and look forward to an exciting future for Piwik 3 and beyond!

• Matomo 2 reaches end of life soon (December 2017), update now !

  7 décembre 2017, par Matomo Core Team — Community

  In less than three weeks, Matomo (Piwik) 2 will be no longer supported. This means that no further (security) updates will be released for this version. As per our Long Term Support announcement, Matomo 2.X is supported for 12 months after the initial release of Matomo 3.0.0 which was on December 18th 2016. Therefore, Matomo 2 will no longer receive any updates after December 18th 2017.

  It has been almost a year since we released Matomo (Piwik) 3 and we highly recommend updating to Matomo 3 ASAP. The major new release came with a new UI, performance and security improvements. If you are still on Matomo 2, the security improvements alone should be worth updating your Matomo to Matomo 3 now. We cannot recommend this enough.

  The update to Matomo (Piwik) 3 should be smooth, but may take a while depending on the amount of data you have.

  • If you have any problem with the update, feel free to get in touch with us, or ask in the forums.
  • If you are currently using Matomo (Piwik) self-hosted and would like to be upgraded, plus your Matomo managed in the official Cloud-hosted service, contact InnoCraft Cloud and they will migrate your database.

  At Matomo (Piwik) and InnoCraft, the company of the makers of Matomo, we have seen many thousands of Matomo installations upgraded over the past year and look forward to an exciting future for Matomo 3 and beyond!

• Secure and track every change to your Piwik installation with the Activity Log plugin

  14 novembre 2017, par InnoCraft — Plugins

  Are 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:

  1. detect any suspicious actions
  2. detect hacker attacks
  3. help identify performance problems
  4. see clearly who did what, and when
  5. 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.

  I want to try the Activity Log plugin

  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.

   

• Secure and track every change to your Matomo installation with the Activity Log plugin

  14 novembre 2017, par InnoCraft — Plugins

  Are 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:

  1. detect any suspicious actions
  2. detect hacker attacks
  3. help identify performance problems
  4. see clearly who did what, and when
  5. 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.

  I want to try the Activity Log plugin

  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.

   

• Power-Up your Piwik installation with Custom Reports

  13 novembre 2017, par InnoCraft — Plugins

  Would 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:

  1. get a user-friendly interface to create the report you wish
  2. see all the possible combinations to create the report you desire
  3. 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.

  Get Custom Reports

  If you are not sure yet, you can always give it a try within our Piwik Cloud infrastructure.