How to monitor guest user access on a public dashboard in SAS Visual Analytics

[romartins]

Hello everyone!

We have a client who has a dashboard for public/anonymous access by a "guest" user (without credentials) in SAS Visual Analytics, where the client's institutional website is also publicly accessible, and there is a "button" on the website to access the link the dashboard.
The client wants to monitor the number of accesses to this dashboard, and questions have arisen as to whether it would also be possible to monitor which reports and pages are being accessed the most, that is, as a statistic on the use of this publicly accessible dashboard, since it is a dashboard for the population in which this client operates.
The client also wants to know how many downloads were made by the dashboard, per using the standard SAS Visual Analytics options to export data (formatted data, detailed data and PDF) per each object.

Here is an example of the structure of reports and pages: exemple_1.jpg

Here is an example of the standard option for exporting data and PDF: example_2.jpg

 My questions are:

1 - In this context, is there any way to check the number of accesses by the "guest" user to this/these dashboard/dashboards?
2 - Is there any way to check the number of export of data by the "guest" user in the standard options of SAS Visual Analytics?
3 - How could we perform these access checks/analyses?

If possible, please help us with examples and/or names of standard log files that are necessary for verification.

I thank everyone in advance for their contributions!

[JuanS_OCS]

Hello @romartins ,

for this question, you might need to think like a technical administrator: you can find the information in the logs. 

And once you have the information, you can parse it, bring it into SAS datasets and then work with it normally.

In the logs of Visual Analytics you can find this information, however, it will be probably much better and in detail to parse the access logs of your web server or reverse proxy, as it will include as well the IP address of your guests. In this way, while they remain as guests, you can determine some interesting additional insights.