retention API methods

Show retention data over time.

Calculate retention data

POST /api/v1/admin/retention HTTP/1.1

Generate a retention data report for a given time period and bucket.

Returns: Array of Admin::Cohort
OAuth: User token + admin:read
Permissions: View Dashboard
Version history:
3.5.0 - added
4.0.0 - support custom roles and permissions

Request

Headers

Authorization: required Provide this header with Bearer <user_token> to gain authorized access to this API method.

Form data parameters

start_at: required String (Datetime). The start date for the time period. If a time is provided, it will be ignored.
end_at: required String (Datetime). The end date for the time period. If a time is provided, it will be ignored.
frequency: required String (Enumerable oneOf). Specify whether to use day or month buckets. If any other value is provided, defaults to day.

Response

200: OK

Monthly retention data for the month of 2022-09, given that 2 users registered during 2022-09 and were active at least once during that month.

[ { "period": "2022-09-01T00:00:00+00:00", "frequency": "month", "data": [ { "date": "2022-09-01T00:00:00+00:00", "rate": 1.0, "value": "2" } ] } ]

Daily retention data for the week between 2022-09-08 and 2022-09-14, given that 2 users registered on 2022-09-08 and 1 of those users stopped being active after 2022-09-09.

[  {  "period": "2022-09-08T00:00:00+00:00",  "frequency": "day",  "data": [  {  "date": "2022-09-08T00:00:00+00:00",  "rate": 1,  "value": "2"  },  {  "date": "2022-09-09T00:00:00+00:00",  "rate": 1,  "value": "2"  },  {  "date": "2022-09-10T00:00:00+00:00",  "rate": 0.5,  "value": "1"  },  // ...  {  "date": "2022-09-14T00:00:00+00:00",  "rate": 0.5,  "value": "1"  }  ]  },  {  "period": "2022-09-09T00:00:00+00:00",  "frequency": "day",  "data": [  {  "date": "2022-09-09T00:00:00+00:00",  "rate": 0,  "value": "0"  }, // ...  {  "date": "2022-09-14T00:00:00+00:00",  "rate": 0,  "value": "0"  }  ]  },  {  "period": "2022-09-10T00:00:00+00:00",  "frequency": "day",  "data": [  {  "date": "2022-09-10T00:00:00+00:00",  "rate": 0,  "value": "0"  }, // ...  {  "date": "2022-09-14T00:00:00+00:00",  "rate": 0,  "value": "0"  }  ]  },  // ...  {  "period": "2022-09-14T00:00:00+00:00",  "frequency": "day",  "data": [  {  "date": "2022-09-14T00:00:00+00:00",  "rate": 0,  "value": "0"  }  ]  } ]

If any of the parameters are missing, cohort calculation will fail and an empty array will be returned.

[]

403: Forbidden

Authorized user is missing a permission, or invalid or missing Authorization header

{  "error": "This action is not allowed" }