Roadmap for Canvas Live Events
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Tagging @sgergely since this is mostly a question for him, but I suspect it'll be of interest to folks like @ColinMurtaugh and likely others.
For a few years, we've been using a mixture of CD1 requests and Canvas Live Events. They both have their pros and cons, but in the last year we've found ourselves using Caliper events more often than requests, especially when looking at engagement. Using `NavigationEvent` or `asset_accessed` as a proxy for a page view is vastly easier than trying to do the same using requests. It's not impossible, but it's so much easier.
Back in 2021, there was an Instructure presentation to the now defunct Internet2 LRS SIG (kudos to Tom if you're lurking here!). At the time, a number of comments were made about Live Events. Our notes were:
- Canvas Live Events are to be used for supporting applications, not to be relied on as a data source
- Using Canvas Live Events as a data source is characterized as a stop-gap measure until Canvas Data 2 rolls out with the 4-hour latency
There was subsequently an "Event Architecture & Event-Based Development Group" where Instructure was trying to better understand how clients are using events.
I haven't heard much about the roadmap for Live Events. Could we get an update? Are we safe to rely on Live Events for analytics projects?
Thanks in advance!
