Announcing Messaging Service Observability Dashboard

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Hello Creators,

We are excited to share the release of the new Messaging Service Observability dashboard. This new page on the Creator Dashboard provides real-time visibility into how your Experiences are utilizing the Messaging Service, which is vital for monitoring message traffic and diagnosing potential issues.

The Messaging Service Insights dashboard features 5 distinct charts to help you track performance:

  • Published Messages: This chart tracks the volume of messages being published by your game servers through Messaging Service.
  • Received Messages: This tracks the total number of messages your game servers receive from subscribed topics.
  • Message Size: This displays the average size of the messages transmitted.
  • Game Servers Subscribed: This metric shows the number of game servers actively subscribed to at least one Messaging Service topic.
  • Fanout ratio (received messages over published messages): This is the ratio of message consumption against production.

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How to Get Started

To access this dashboard, navigate to your Creator Dashboard, select your Experience, and select Messaging Service under the Monitoring section.

We are looking forward to seeing how you use these dashboards as well as what improvements you may need. We have plans to include topic breakdowns, and if you have ideas for other new metrics or data breakdowns, please let us know your use cases and how this would benefit you! We look forward to your feedback as we improve Messaging Service and Observability tools.

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Is it also able to tell you whether it was published via a script in a running instance or done using the OpenCloud API?

I gave out all my API keys on Reddit and I don’t know if my experience is being targeted. These API keys are kinda confusing too.

I also like all the dashboard updates for even more insight into usage

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I’m seeing negative amounts of servers subscribed, any idea what might be causing that?

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aren’t you able to delete said API keys? Also that was a terrible idea to give API keys to… well strangers.

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The timing on this being released couldn’t be better for me ReliableMessagingService | RLNC Based Reliable Messaging

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Hi VastMajorPie,
It is not currently possible to see whether a message was published from the OpenCloud API or not, but we do plan on adding this functionality. If you and others could include examples of how you would use this feature (or other dashboard features) it would help us ensure that our dashboard updates will directly solve the problems you are dealing with.

Additionally, do be careful with your API keys, and if you ever need to you can delete and reset your API keys to ensure that their values are kept secret.

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Thank you for reporting this, we will look into what could be causing this error!

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