Flask-Statistics

Flask-Statistics is an extensions that collects data from requests send to the server to then display statistics like response-time, hits, unique hits, etc.

Installation

You can install the extensions with pip:

$ pip install flask-statistics

Usage

Below is a small example on how to use the extension.

from flask import Flask
from flask_sqlalchemy import SQLAlchemy
from flask_statistics import Statistics

app = Flask(__name__)
app.config["SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI"] = "sqlite:///database.db"

db = SQLAlchemy(app)

class Request(db.Model):
    __tablename__ = "request"

    index = db.Column(db.Integer, primary_key=True, autoincrement=True)
    response_time = db.Column(db.Float)
    date = db.Column(db.DateTime)
    method = db.Column(db.String)
    size = db.Column(db.Integer)
    status_code = db.Column(db.Integer)
    path = db.Column(db.String)
    user_agent = db.Column(db.String)
    remote_address = db.Column(db.String)
    exception = db.Column(db.String)
    referrer = db.Column(db.String)
    browser = db.Column(db.String)
    platform = db.Column(db.String)
    mimetype = db.Column(db.String)

statistics = Statistics(app, db, Request)

@app.route("/")
def index():
    return "Hello World!"

if  __name__ == "__main__":
    app.run()

The script above sets up a basic SQLAlchemy Database. When initalizing the statistics extensions, you will have to provide a model (here: Request) to store the data in.

Now, whenever a user requests an endpoint, it will be stored in the defined model.

If you are in debug mode and an exception occures, teardown of the request will not happen and therefore it won't be stored in the database. If you want to teardown it by force, set PRESERVE_CONTEXT_ON_EXCEPTION to False in the config.

Things that are stored

View the statistics

Flask-Statistics will add a blueprint with the prefix ../statistics to your app.

Config

Protect the route

Flask-Statistics accepts a fourth argument: A function that is called before any requests to the statistics blueprint.

...

def check_if_user_is_allowed():
    # check if user is allowed to
    # e.g. JWT Token, Flask Login etc.
    # ...
    if not allowed:
        return redirect(url_for("index"))

statistics = Statistics(app, db, Request, check_if_user_is_allowed)

There you can check if the user has the required permissions to view the statistics. If not, redirect him to another page.

Disable statistics

If a user has opt-out, request record can be disabled with custom function disable_f.

statistics = Statistics(app, db, Request, disable_f= lambda: current_user.has_optout() )

or

def has_disable_cookie():
    return request.cookies.get('disable_stat') == 'True'

statistics = Statistics(app, db, Request, disable_f=has_disable_cookie )