Send events to custom DB backend

services/web/app/coffee/Features/Analytics/AnalyticsController.coffee

@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+AnalyticsManager = require "./AnalyticsManager"
+
+module.exports = AnalyticsController =
+	recordEvent: (req, res, next) ->
+		AnalyticsManager.recordEvent req.session?.user?._id, req.params.event, req.body, (error) ->
+			return next(error) if error?
+			res.send 204

services/web/app/coffee/Features/Analytics/AnalyticsManager.coffee

@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+Settings = require "settings-sharelatex"
+logger = require "logger-sharelatex"
+_ = require "underscore"
+
+if !Settings.analytics?.postgres?
+	module.exports =
+		recordEvent: (user_id, event, metadata, callback = () ->) ->
+			logger.log {user_id, event, metadata}, "no event tracking configured, logging event"
+			callback()
+else
+	Sequelize = require "sequelize"
+	options = _.extend {logging:false}, Settings.analytics.postgres
+
+	sequelize = new Sequelize(
+		Settings.analytics.postgres.database,
+		Settings.analytics.postgres.username,
+		Settings.analytics.postgres.password,
+		options
+	)
+	
+	Event = sequelize.define("Event", {
+		user_id: Sequelize.STRING,
+		event: Sequelize.STRING,
+		metadata: Sequelize.STRING
+	})
+
+	module.exports =
+		recordEvent: (user_id, event, metadata = {}, callback = (error) ->) ->
+			if typeof(metadata) != "string"
+				metadata = JSON.stringify(metadata)
+			if user_id? and typeof(user_id) != "string"
+				user_id = user_id.toString()
+			if user_id == Settings.smokeTest?.userId
+				# Don't record smoke tests analytics
+				return callback()
+			Event
+				.create({ user_id, event, metadata })
+				.then(
+					(result) -> callback(),
+					(error) ->
+						logger.err {err: error, user_id, event, metadata}, "error recording analytics event"
+						callback(error)
+				)
+			
+		sync: () -> sequelize.sync()

services/web/app/coffee/router.coffee

@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ ContactRouter = require("./Features/Contacts/ContactRouter")
 ReferencesController = require('./Features/References/ReferencesController')
 AuthorizationMiddlewear = require('./Features/Authorization/AuthorizationMiddlewear')
 BetaProgramController = require('./Features/BetaProgram/BetaProgramController')
+AnalyticsRouter = require('./Features/Analytics/AnalyticsRouter')
 
 logger = require("logger-sharelatex")
 _ = require("underscore")
@@ -68,7 +69,8 @@ module.exports = class Router
 		StaticPagesRouter.apply(webRouter, apiRouter)
 		RealTimeProxyRouter.apply(webRouter, apiRouter)
 		ContactRouter.apply(webRouter, apiRouter)
-
+		AnalyticsRouter.apply(webRouter, apiRouter)
+		
 		Modules.applyRouter(webRouter, apiRouter)
 
 
@@ -280,4 +282,4 @@ module.exports = class Router
 			metrics.inc("client-side-error")
 			res.sendStatus(204)
 
-		webRouter.get '*', ErrorController.notFound
+		webRouter.get '*', ErrorController.notFound

services/web/package.json

@@ -46,6 +46,8 @@
     "nodemailer-sendgrid-transport": "^0.2.0",
     "nodemailer-ses-transport": "^1.3.0",
     "optimist": "0.6.1",
+    "pg": "^6.0.3",
+    "pg-hstore": "^2.3.2",
     "redback": "0.4.0",
     "redis": "0.10.1",
     "redis-sharelatex": "0.0.9",
@@ -53,6 +55,7 @@
     "requests": "^0.1.7",
     "rimraf": "2.2.6",
     "sanitizer": "0.1.1",
+    "sequelize": "^3.2.0",
     "settings-sharelatex": "git+https://github.com/sharelatex/settings-sharelatex.git#v1.0.0",
     "sixpack-client": "^1.0.0",
     "temp": "^0.8.3",

services/web/public/coffee/main/event.coffee

@@ -3,6 +3,11 @@ define [
 	"modules/localStorage"
 ], (App) ->
 	CACHE_KEY = "countlyEvents"
+	send = (category, action, attributes = {})->
+		ga('send', 'event', category, action)
+		event_name = "#{action}-#{category}"
+		Intercom?("trackEvent", event_name, attributes)
+		
 
 	App.factory "event_tracking", (localStorage) ->
 		_getEventCache = () -> 
@@ -41,6 +46,18 @@ define [
 				if ! _eventInCache(key)
 					_addEventToCache(key)
 					@sendCountly key, segmentation
+			
+			send: (category, action, attributes = {})->
+				event_name = "#{action}-#{category}"
+				$.ajax {
+					url: "/event/#{event_name}",
+					method: "POST",
+					data: attributes,
+					dataType: "json",
+					headers: {
+						"X-CSRF-Token": window.csrfToken
+					}
+				}
 		}
 
 	# App.directive "countlyTrack", () ->