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For the past few years, Facebook app developers have trusted App Insights to profit how consumers use their app. While it’s certainly already a terrific tool, Facebook thinks it’s going to improve it to make it even better for developers.
Facebook announced this afternoon that it’s going to be rolling out App Insights 2.0 in beta form today. The newly updated toolset allows developers to collect much more information on how their app is getting used alongside plenty of other useful information, including traffic sources.
To start us off, Facebook says that it has completely redesigned the interface to be easier to navigate. Furthermore, the recent interface was “designed around how your apps integrate with Facebook instead of how users interact with Facebook.” What all this implies is that Facebook will now show you metrics like New Logins, Stories and Referrals at the front page.
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Facebook has also re-organized metric data so developers can easily compare data across their very own apps in addition to others. In your own data, it all have been consolidated right into a single graph that tells you the way much traffic comes from Facebook, Open Graph stories or Requests. You can even compare your individual metrics with anonymized metrics from other apps to work out if a spike on your data is being seen in other apps.
Finally, Facebook says that it has worked hard to make the hot App Insights more reliable than ever. Due to a comprehensive audit of its data sources, Facebook is now confident that you’re getting accurate numbers not just from desktop visitors, but from mobile devices besides. It is going to also display warnings when it detects that there is something wrong with the information.
App Insights 2.0 is now available to developers, but Facebook stresses that it’s still in beta. Developers who aren’t able to make the switch just yet would be happy to understand that Facebook will continue to support App Insights 1.0 because the default option for the foreseeable future. If you’re not terrified of the longer term, you are able to test App Insights 2.0 immediately by going for your App Insights overview and clicking “try the brand new App Insights.”
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