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【Management】User-level CDF usage logs

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  • May 7, 2026
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Shun Takase
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At the moment, I believe users cannot see which users in their organization are using which CDF features, nor how they are being used.
Would it be possible for users with administrator privileges to access this kind of information?
If this were available, it would enable us to consider measures to make better use of CDF based on actual usage patterns within our organization. For example:

A certain department frequently uses Charts but rarely uses Canvas, so we could interview them to understand the reasons.
Specific features of Charts or Canvas are hardly being used, so we could improve the documentation and promote their usage.
Although they are not very vocal and we had not noticed before, it turns out that Mr./Ms. △△ is actually a heavy user of CDF, so we could identify them as a key person.

If there is already a way to obtain such information, we would greatly appreciate it if you could let us know.

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Michael Bennett
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  • May 9, 2026

There’s probably many ways to do this, but my suggestion would be to sit down with the Cognite API docs. From there you can slowly start to monitor some of the APIs for usage, It will be a tedious project, but I think it would work. Prometheus and Moseif are just a couple of tools that could gather that info for you.

 

Although Charts or Canvas aren’t mentioned in the API docs, I can see calls to 

storage/charts/charts/list

The product management team has mentioned they will be releasing a Canvas API in the future. But if you search for the following API

storage/config/userhistory/apps

The request payload will show you it’s a call to Canvas.

{
  "items": [
    {
      "app": "industry-canvas"
    }
  ]
}

 

Regards,

 

Michael Bennett

Academy Engineer