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retention API methods

Show retention data over time.

    • Calculate retention data
    • See also

Calculate retention data

POST /api/v1/admin/retention HTTP/1.1

Generate a retention data report for a given time period and bucket.

Returns: Array of Admin::Cohort
OAuth: User token + admin:read
Permissions: View Dashboard
Version history:
3.5.0 - added
4.0.0 - support custom roles and permissions

Request

Headers
Authorization
required Provide this header with Bearer <user_token> to gain authorized access to this API method.
Form data parameters
start_at
required String (Datetime). The start date for the time period. If a time is provided, it will be ignored.
end_at
required String (Datetime). The end date for the time period. If a time is provided, it will be ignored.
frequency
required String (Enumerable oneOf). Specify whether to use day or month buckets. If any other value is provided, defaults to day.

Response

200: OK

Monthly retention data for the month of 2022-09, given that 2 users registered during 2022-09 and were active at least once during that month.

[
	{
		"period": "2022-09-01T00:00:00+00:00",
		"frequency": "month",
		"data": [
			{
					"date": "2022-09-01T00:00:00+00:00",
					"rate": 1.0,
					"value": "2"
			}
		]
	}
]

Daily retention data for the week between 2022-09-08 and 2022-09-14, given that 2 users registered on 2022-09-08 and 1 of those users stopped being active after 2022-09-09.

[
  {
    "period": "2022-09-08T00:00:00+00:00",
    "frequency": "day",
    "data": [
      {
        "date": "2022-09-08T00:00:00+00:00",
        "rate": 1,
        "value": "2"
      },
      {
        "date": "2022-09-09T00:00:00+00:00",
        "rate": 1,
        "value": "2"
      },
      {
        "date": "2022-09-10T00:00:00+00:00",
        "rate": 0.5,
        "value": "1"
      },
      // ...
      {
        "date": "2022-09-14T00:00:00+00:00",
        "rate": 0.5,
        "value": "1"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "period": "2022-09-09T00:00:00+00:00",
    "frequency": "day",
    "data": [
      {
        "date": "2022-09-09T00:00:00+00:00",
        "rate": 0,
        "value": "0"
      },
		// ...
      {
        "date": "2022-09-14T00:00:00+00:00",
        "rate": 0,
        "value": "0"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "period": "2022-09-10T00:00:00+00:00",
    "frequency": "day",
    "data": [
      {
        "date": "2022-09-10T00:00:00+00:00",
        "rate": 0,
        "value": "0"
      },
		// ...
      {
        "date": "2022-09-14T00:00:00+00:00",
        "rate": 0,
        "value": "0"
      }
    ]
  },
  // ...
  {
    "period": "2022-09-14T00:00:00+00:00",
    "frequency": "day",
    "data": [
      {
        "date": "2022-09-14T00:00:00+00:00",
        "rate": 0,
        "value": "0"
      }
    ]
  }
]

If any of the parameters are missing, cohort calculation will fail and an empty array will be returned.

[]
403: Forbidden

Authorized user is missing a permission, or invalid or missing Authorization header

{
  "error": "This action is not allowed"
}

See also

app/controllers/api/v1/admin/retention_controller.rb

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