Hello everyone, If we migrate to Discourse, how easy is it port historical forum content over to the new Discourse platform. Also, in the future if we decide to move from Discourse and go back in-house, how easy is it to liberate/move the data out of Discourse back in-house? Thanks for your help! …

See /admin/backups on your install – you can export or import your data right from your web browser, any time you want.

Also, I had a couple of additional questions with regards to getting Discourse set up: I realize Discourse has an in-built Analytics dashboard. If we want to add and report on additional custom metrics, how easy is it to add new code to query backend tables? How easy is it to create custom rules f…

[image] sandeepberi81: I realize Discourse has an in-built Analytics dashboard. If we want to add and report on additional custom metrics, how easy is it to add new code to query backend tables? That’s certainly on the wishlist. [image] sandeepberi81: How easy is it to create custom rule…

Thanks that sounds great. Quick follow up: it seems like if we do a Discourse hosted installation, it’s currently not possible to write custom backend SQL queries to gather and report out on additional metrics. Is that correct? Also, if we do on-premise, is it possible to query backend tables and …

Was just thinking, if we can get the session logs, then is it possible to analyze that to develop and create custom metrics?

[image] sandeepberi81: Quick follow up: it seems like if we do a Discourse hosted installation, it’s currently not possible to write custom backend SQL queries to gather and report out on additional metrics. Is that correct? Not automatically, unless you go through some awkward steps includin…

Thanks @riking So, to summarize, it is possible to analyze session logs to develop custom metrics as long we continually run and download a backup regularly through some script?

Well, I think that the “user visit” and “post timings” tables should have enough data for you to analyze to start out.

Thanks @riking . Would the schema for these tables be available for me to look somewhere online? Thanks again!

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riking (Kane York) November 13, 2014, 7:21am 12

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