# Recover site traffic prior to AWS server migration

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/recover-site-traffic-prior-to-aws-server-migration/393896
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [20 januari 2026 om 16:09 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/recover-site-traffic-prior-to-aws-server-migration/393896 "2026-01-20T16:09:38Z")
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### Author: ![Wall-E](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/wall-e/32/184438_2.png) [@Wall-E](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Wall-E)
#### Post date: [20 januari 2026 om 16:09 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/recover-site-traffic-prior-to-aws-server-migration/393896/1 "2026-01-20T16:09:38Z")

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Our discourse site is hosted on AWS. Last December, we moved the whole instance to a new VM. Doing so, we lost our traffic data. We thought we could spin up the backup on a subdomain, say `test.ourdiscourse.blah`, but that only saved the other analytics data, not the site traffic… Any idea how we could recover those missing data? They were crucial to publish our performance report to our sponsor, that sponsor being NASA…

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### Author: ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [20 januari 2026 om 19:20 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/recover-site-traffic-prior-to-aws-server-migration/393896/2 "2026-01-20T19:20:41Z")

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Hmm. That data is in the database, so I don’t see how it might be missing–everything else is as expected?

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### Author: ![Moin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/moin/32/554653_2.png) [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [20 januari 2026 om 22:43 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/recover-site-traffic-prior-to-aws-server-migration/393896/3 "2026-01-20T22:43:53Z")

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I assume you see the same data in the ‘site traffic’ report at `/admin/reports/site_traffic`. Do you see more data when you view the report about ‘Legacy consolidated pageviews’ at `/admin/reports/consolidated_page_views`?

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### Author: ![Wall-E](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/wall-e/32/184438_2.png) [@Wall-E](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Wall-E)
#### Post date: [20 januari 2026 om 22:55 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/recover-site-traffic-prior-to-aws-server-migration/393896/4 "2026-01-20T22:55:26Z")

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Same for both. no data.

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### Author: ![Moin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/moin/32/554653_2.png) [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [21 januari 2026 om 04:10 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/recover-site-traffic-prior-to-aws-server-migration/393896/5 "2026-01-21T04:10:45Z")

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‘Consolidated API requests’ is a different report than

> [@Moin](#):
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> ‘Legacy consolidated pageviews’

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### Author: ![Wall-E](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/wall-e/32/184438_2.png) [@Wall-E](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Wall-E)
#### Post date: [21 maart 2026 om 16:03 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/recover-site-traffic-prior-to-aws-server-migration/393896/6 "2026-03-21T16:03:37Z")

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I think that solved it, I see the data when going to /admin/reports/consolidated\_page\_views

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