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Android Built-in Metrics

The Bort SDK contains built-in support for collecting various types of metrics from Android devices.

Some are automatically collected, and some require configuration in the Memfault dashboard.

To record custom metrics, see the Reporting APIs.

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Be sure to configure which metrics you would like to be Timeseries and Attributes in the Metrics Dashboard.

Collected Since Bort 3.0

Bort collects metrics from the Android batterystats subsystem. This includes data from many components which may affect battery usage (Radio, Wifi, Bluetooth, Screen, CPU, GPS), in addition to statistics about the battery itself.

These metrics are displayed on the device timeline:

And several summary metrics are also available:

  • audio_on_ratio
  • battery_health_not_good_ratio
  • battery_level_pct_avg
  • bluetooth_scan_ratio
  • cpu_running_ratio
  • cpu_resume_count_per_hour
  • cpu_suspend_count_per_hour
  • cpu_wake_count_per_hour
  • doze_full_ratio
  • doze_ratio
  • gps_on_ratio
  • max_battery_temp
  • phone_radio_active_ratio
  • phone_scanning_ratio
  • phone_signal_strength_none_ratio
  • phone_signal_strength_poor_ratio
  • screen_on_ratio
  • screen_brightness_light_or_bright_ratio
  • wifi_on_ratio
  • wifi_radio_active_ratio
  • wifi_running_ratio
  • wifi_scan_ratio
  • wifi_signal_strength_poor_or_very_poor_ratio

These metrics would be good candidates for Timeseries metrics, to monitor fleet performance over time and find outlier devices.

Device Temperatures​

Collected Since Bort 4.0

Bort regularly collects several device temperature metrics:

  • CPU
  • Device Skin

These are reported with min/max/mean values each hour, for each available sensor:

These metrics would be good candidates for Timeseries metrics, to monitor fleet performance over time and find outlier devices.

Storage Usage​

Collected Since Bort 4.0

Bort regularly collects device storage usage metrics:

  • storage.primary.bytes_free
  • storage.primary.bytes_total
  • storage.primary.bytes_used
  • storage.primary.percentage_used

These metrics would be good candidates for Timeseries metrics, to monitor fleet performance over time and find outlier devices.

Installed App Versions​

Collected Since Bort 4.0

Bort can collect installed app versions as metrics. These can be configured on the Memfault Settings Dashboard, on the Data Sources tab, by entering package names to collect:

Wildcards can be used, to collect multiple apps sharing the same package root.

Each collected version is stored as a metric, prefixed with version.:

These metrics would be good candidates for Attributes, to enable e.g. searching for devices with a given app version installed, or checking the installed versions on a specific device.

System Properties​

Collected Since Bort 4.0

Bort can collect Android System Properties. These can be configured on the Memfault Settings Dashboard, on the Data Sources tab, by entering each property to collect:

Each collected property is stored as a metric, prefixed with sysprop.:

These metrics would be good candidates for Attributes, to enable e.g. searching for devices with a given system property, or checking the properties for a specific device.