Monitor When a New Feature is Used in Your PHP Application

Introducing new features to your PHP application is an exciting way to enhance user experience and provide added value to your users. Monitoring the adoption and usage of these new features is essential to gauge their success, understand user behavior, and make data-driven decisions to further improve your application.

Saashound, a powerful real-time event tracking tool, offers seamless monitoring for new feature usage in your PHP application. By integrating Saashound directly into your application, you can effortlessly track when a new feature is used in real-time and gain valuable insights into its adoption and impact on user engagement.

Connecting Saashound to Your PHP Application

To begin monitoring new feature usage in your PHP application using Saashound, follow these simple steps:

  1. Sign up for a free Saashound account to start tracking your application’s events.
  2. Create your first project from the user-friendly dashboard.
  3. Access the settings and securely copy your unique API token.

PHP Integration

Integrating Saashound into your PHP application is straightforward. Use the following code snippet to start tracking new feature usage. Remember to replace API_TOKEN with your actual Saashound API token and update the project name to match your project.

Using http
<?php
function logEvent() {
$apiUrl = 'https://api.saashound.co/log-event';
$payload = json_encode([
'project' => 'my-project',
'channel' => 'user-activity',
'event' => 'New Feature Usage',
'description' => 'A user has used the new feature 'Feature Name'.',
'icon' => '✨',
'notify' => true
]);
$headers = [
'Content-Type: application/json',
'Authorization: Bearer API_TOKEN',
];
$ch = curl_init($apiUrl);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, 'POST');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $payload);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
$response = curl_exec($ch);
$httpCode = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
if ($httpCode >= 200 && $httpCode < 300) {
echo 'Log event sent successfully!';
} else {
echo 'Failed to send log event. Response code: ' . $httpCode;
}
curl_close($ch);
}
logEvent();

With Saashound monitoring new feature usage, you can:

  • Real-Time Notifications: Receive instant notifications when users interact with new features, enabling you to assess adoption and impact promptly.
  • Custom Tracking: Set up custom event tracking for each new feature, tailoring the monitoring to your specific requirements.
  • User Behavior Analysis: Analyze user behavior around new features to understand user engagement and improve feature design.
  • Data-Driven Decision Making: Utilize data on new feature usage to make informed decisions and prioritize future development efforts.

Saashound Benefits

Saashound is designed to be user-friendly and accessible to developers and teams of all sizes. Here are some key benefits of using Saashound for monitoring new feature usage in your PHP application:

  • Ease of Use: Saashound offers a no-code event tracking solution, making it simple for anyone to implement and use.
  • Flexibility: Saashound can track various user interactions, ensuring comprehensive monitoring of new feature usage.
  • Cross-Platform Support: Saashound’s cross-platform push notifications deliver alerts to your preferred devices, keeping you informed from anywhere.
  • Event Filtering: Customize which feature-related events to track and receive notifications for, focusing on the most critical data.
  • Insights and Analytics: Utilize Saashound’s charts and analytics to visualize new feature usage data and gain valuable insights.

By leveraging Saashound’s new feature usage monitoring capabilities, you can gain valuable insights into your PHP application’s feature adoption, engage with users effectively, and continuously improve the overall user experience.

Other use-cases for SaasHound

  1. Monitor API Authorization and Access Control in your PHP Application
  2. Monitor API Response Times in your PHP Application
  3. Monitor CPU and Memory Usage of External Services Accessed by your PHP Application
  4. Monitor CPU Usage in your PHP Application
  5. Monitor when a Database Goes Down in your PHP Application
  6. Monitor Database Query Performance in your PHP Application
  7. Monitor High Disk Usage in Your PHP Application
  8. Monitor when a user changes their email address in your PHP application
  9. Monitor failed logins in your PHP application
  10. Monitor failed payments for your PHP application
  11. Monitor memory usage in your PHP application
  12. Monitor MySQL downtime in your PHP application
  13. Monitor your Postgres downtime in your PHP application
  14. Monitor Redis downtime in your PHP application
  15. Monitor Server Health and Uptime in your PHP Application
  16. Monitor suspicious activity in your PHP application
  17. Monitor when a user is being rate limited in your PHP application
  18. Monitor when a user exceeds the usage limit for your PHP service
  19. Get a notification when your PHP code is done executing
  20. Send push notifications to your phone or desktop using PHP
  21. Track A/B Testing and Feature Rollouts in your PHP Application
  22. Track canceled subscriptions in your PHP application
  23. Track Cron Jobs in PHP
  24. Track when a file is uploaded to your PHP application
  25. Track when a form is submitted to your PHP application
  26. Track your PHP cron jobs
  27. Track payment events via PHP
  28. Track User Engagement Metrics in your PHP Application
  29. Track user sign in events in PHP
  30. Track user signup events via PHP
  31. Track waitlist signup events via PHP