Add view by architecture in metrics

[bekalshenoy]

Add a option to view or sort weakly active devices by architecture (32bit, 64bit) in metrics of snap application

[WebDrake]

This would be extremely useful to have. I'm currently maintaining both i386 and amd64 versions of packages, and I have a strong suspicion that no one is using the i386 releases. But without proof, it's difficult to justify dropping support ... ;-)

[Lukewh]

@WebDrake thanks for bumping this issue.
@bekalshenoy @WebDrake I've created an issue for the API to supply this information, I'll update this issue as things progress.

[WebDrake]

Thanks @LukeWH1 Any chance of an issue cross-ref?

[bartaz]

That's gonna be this one I think:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/software-center-agent/+bug/1846689

[WebDrake]

Thanks @tbille for raising the priority of this issue again :-) Quick question: is there any way for now to query the underlying API directly (as a workaround for package maintainers who want to check architecture usage)?

[tbille]

hey, you can now go on you metrics page and should have the selection for architectures too now. 😄

@WebDrake There is an API docs for the publisher section but it seems it is not documented: https://dashboard.snapcraft.io/docs/api/snap.html#fetch-metrics-for-snaps

In case you try to use it the metric is weekly_installed_base_by_architecture

I'll make sure to pass the message to the team that works on delivering this doc :)

[WebDrake]

@tbille that's great, thank you so much for implementing this!