Site Statistics for Confluence Cloud

Admins can retrieve site metrics (e.g. spaces, pages, blogposts, comments, attachments & groups) with this app
Complements Confluence Cloud Migration Assistant by checking on the page counts before and after the migration.
Automatic snapshots of key statistics daily. The charts enable you to monitor and report on the usage trend of your Confluence Cloud site.

Inspiration

This is a sister app for the Site Statistics for Jira Cloud

There is no System Info page in Confluence Cloud which allows admins to see the site statistics.

What it does

It allows Confluence admins to see the site statistics 📈
It helps to track the usage growth of a Confluence site
It can be used as a supplementary tool to check on the Confluence Cloud migration

How we built it

We used the Atlassian Forge framework to build it. It is a suitable choice because all the data is retained in Atlassian infrastructure and there is no need to set up or manage the infrastructure.

Challenges we ran into

In order to get the disk storage usage, the only possible way is to call https://admin.atlassian.com/gateway/api/media/admin/usage/limits using API token. We hope to have official support (like other Confluence REST API call without any API token) in near future.
The 25 seconds timeout limit for Forge means that the implementation has to be innovative and efficient.
The increase in storage object size limit from 32kb to 128kb was helpful that enabled us to store more metrics

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Making this app a reality and listing it on Atlassian Marketplace 😄

The Site Statistics for Jira Cloud has gained over 260 installs within 16 months.

What we learned

We learnt more things about using Forge and Confluence Cloud.

What's next for Site Statistics for Confluence Cloud

Space Level Statistics - That will be useful to identify which spaces are highly utilised and generated the most content.
Storage Usage - This will be something useful because the standard plan has a 250GB limit. By displaying the trend, it will help admins to do forecast planning
Support for IP Allowlist - Currently, when IP allowlist is enabled, the API request seems to be blocked. This is tracked at CONFCLOUD-73742

We also welcome suggestions to improve this app.