MONITOR NEW FEATURE USAGE WITH POWERSHELL LANGUAGE

Monitor when a new feature is used in your PowerShell application

As software developers, we are constantly seeking ways to enhance our Powershell products. Our primary focus is on delivering more value to our users and enhancing their overall experience.

One approach that's frequently discussed is the use of "feature flags." Feature flags provide a mechanism to activate or deactivate specific features within your application. This functionality serves as a valuable tool for testing new features and ensuring they perform as expected before a broader release to users.

However, introducing a new feature is only the initial step in the process. Once the feature is deployed, it becomes crucial to validate its adoption and utility among our user base. We must confirm whether the feature is actively utilized and delivering benefits to our users.

In this context, Palzin Track emerges as an invaluable solution. It simplifies the integration of event tracking within your Powershell application and provides real-time monitoring capabilities. With Palzin Track, you can effortlessly track essential events in your application and closely monitor user interactions following the introduction of a new feature.

Consider an example where you are developing a Powershell application that enables users to upload files. You wish to introduce a new feature allowing users to share these files directly with others. Palzin Track can be employed to monitor when a user shares a file with another user. This data can be leveraged to gauge the frequency of feature usage and even delve deeper by tracking user journeys to understand how users engage with it.

Connect Palzin Track to PowerShell

Setting up Palzin Track

1. Sign up for a free Palzin Track account.
2. Create your first project from the dashboard.
3. Head to settings and copy your API token.

PowerShell code snippets

Simply use the following code snippets to monitor your new features using Palzin Track. Make sure to replace the YOUR_API_TOKEN with your API token and update the project and channel names.

Using PowerShell with RestMethod

$headers = New-Object "System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary\[\[String\],\[String\]\]"  


$headers.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")  


$headers.Add("Authorization", "Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN")  


$body = "{`"project`":`"my-project`",`"channel`":`"features`",`"event`":`"User Shared File`",`"description`":`"User shared a file with another user`",`"icon`":`"📩`",`"notify`":true}"  


$response = Invoke-RestMethod 'https://api.palzin.live/v1/log' -Method 'POST' -Headers $headers -Body $body  


$response | ConvertTo-Json

PowerShell integration details

Palzin Track is a use-case agnostic event tracking tool that easily integrates with any PowerShell application. It offers robust functionalities like live event tracking, push notifications across various platforms, event categorization, tracking user and product paths, visual charts, analytics, and numerous other capabilities.

Here at Palzin Track, we believe that event tracking should be easy and accessible to everyone, and that's why we have made it trivial to integrate with your PowerShell application. Setting up Palzin Track is a quick process, requiring just a few minutes, enabling you to commence event tracking promptly.

We offer a generous free plan to help you begin your event tracking experience. Explore our pricing page to find details about our paid plans. Feel free to give us a try, and we'd love to hear your thoughts!.

Other use-cases for Palzin Track

1. Monitor your CI/CD build status for your PowerShell application
2. Monitor your CPU usage in your PowerShell application
3. Monitor when database goes down in your PowerShell application
4. Monitor high disk usage in your PowerShell application
5. Monitor when a user changes their email address in your PowerShell application
6. Monitor failed logins in your PowerShell application
7. Monitor failed payments for your PowerShell application
8. Monitor memory usage in your PowerShell application
9. Monitor MySQL downtime in your PowerShell application
10. Monitor your Postgres downtime in your PowerShell application
11. Monitor Redis downtime in your PowerShell application
12. Monitor suspicious activity in your PowerShell application
13. Monitor when a user exceeds the usage limit for your PowerShell service
14. Monitor when a user is being rate limited in your PowerShell application
15. Get a notification when your PowerShell code is done executing
16. Send push notifications to your phone or desktop using PowerShell
17. Track canceled subscriptions in your PowerShell application
18. Track your PowerShell cron jobs
19. Track when a file is uploaded to your PowerShell application
20. Track when a form is submitted to your PowerShell application
21. Track payment events via PowerShell
22. Track user sign in events in PowerShell
23. Monitor user signup events via PowerShell
24. Track waitlist signup events via PowerShell