Activity Tracking System

Overview

This release introduces a comprehensive Activity Tracking System that provides detailed audit trails, performance analytics, and historical data for all poster and media-related operations in Aphrodite.

Major Features

Activity Tracking Foundation

• Core Activity Log: Complete audit trail for all badge applications and poster replacements
• Lifecycle Management: Track operation start, progress, completion, and failure states
• Performance Monitoring: CPU, memory, disk I/O, and network usage tracking for all operations (coming soon!)
• Error Handling: Comprehensive error logging with retry tracking and failure analysis (coming soon!)

Detailed Operation Tracking

• Badge Application Metrics: Track badge types, settings, processing times, and quality scores
• Poster Replacement Analytics: Monitor replacement sources, quality improvements, and Jellyfin integration
• Review Score Monitoring: Historical tracking of review scores with change detection
• Batch Operation Support: Link individual operations to parent batch jobs for aggregated analysis

Advanced Analytics Dashboard

• Overview Tab: Real-time system health with activity summaries and performance metrics
• Advanced Search: Filter and search activities by type, status, user, date range, and error content
• User Analytics: Track user-specific activity patterns and success rates (coming soon!)
• Performance Analytics: System resource usage analysis and bottleneck identification (coming soon!)

API Enhancements

• Activity History: Retrieve complete activity logs for any media item (coming soon!)
• Search Endpoints: Advanced filtering and pagination support
• Analytics APIs: Comprehensive performance and statistical data access (coming soon!)
• Batch Analytics: Aggregated metrics for batch operations (coming soon!)

Technical Implementation

Database Schema

• media_activities: Core activity tracking table with comprehensive metadata
• badge_applications: Detailed badge processing metrics and results
• poster_replacements: Poster replacement source tracking and quality assessment
• activity_performance_metrics: System performance monitoring during operations

Backend Services

• ActivityTracker: Centralized service for activity lifecycle management
• PerformanceMonitor: Real-time system resource monitoring
• Advanced Analytics: Modular services for search, batch analytics, and user tracking
• Migration System: Automatic database schema updates and table creation

Frontend Components

• Analytics Dashboard: Modern React-based interface with tabbed navigation
• Search Interface: Advanced filtering with real-time suggestions
• Data Visualization: Charts and metrics for system performance analysis
• Responsive Design: Mobile-friendly analytics interface

Performance Improvements

Monitoring Capabilities

• Real-time CPU and memory usage tracking during operations
• Network bandwidth monitoring for download and upload operations
• Disk I/O measurement for poster processing workflows
• Processing stage timing analysis for bottleneck identification

Data Insights

• Success and failure rate analysis by operation type
• Performance trend tracking over time
• Quality improvement measurement for poster replacements
• User productivity and error pattern analysis

Backward Compatibility

Non-Breaking Changes

• All tracking functionality is additive and optional
• Existing operations continue to function without modification
• Graceful degradation if tracking services are unavailable
• No changes to existing API endpoints or database schema

Migration Strategy

• Automatic table creation on first run
• No historical data back-fill required
• Future operations will be fully tracked
• Existing data remains unchanged

Performance Impact

• Minimal overhead added to existing operations
• Asynchronous logging to avoid blocking main workflows
• Efficient database queries with proper indexing
• Optional detailed monitoring for high-precision analysis

Known Issues

Limitations

• Historical data not available for operations before this release
• Performance analytics API endpoint requires manual router configuration
• Review score monitoring infrastructure ready but not yet connected to review services

Future Enhancements

• Automated alerting for performance degradation
• Predictive analytics for operation failure detection
• Extended retention policies with data archival
• Enhanced dashboard customization options