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📊 Create Dashboard Analytics and Statistics API

Module: Analytics / Reporting
Type: Feature


📖 Overview

This PR introduces a comprehensive analytics and statistics API to power dashboard visualizations, reporting, and data-driven insights across the platform. The API provides real-time and aggregated statistics, trends, distributions, and predictive insights while ensuring high performance through caching and optimized queries.

The solution is designed to scale with large datasets and support role-based access to analytics data.


🎯 Goals

  • Provide accurate, real-time dashboard statistics
  • Support trend and distribution data for charts and visualizations
  • Enable department-, location-, and user-specific analytics
  • Deliver performant responses through caching and optimized queries
  • Support advanced insights such as forecasting and anomaly detection

🌐 API Endpoints

Dashboard Analytics

  • GET /api/v1/analytics/dashboard — Main dashboard statistics
  • GET /api/v1/analytics/asset-stats — Asset-specific statistics
  • GET /api/v1/analytics/trends — Trend data for charts
  • GET /api/v1/analytics/distribution — Asset distribution data
  • GET /api/v1/analytics/top-assets — Highest-value assets
  • GET /api/v1/analytics/alerts — Assets requiring attention

Department Analytics

  • GET /api/v1/analytics/departments/:id — Department analytics
  • GET /api/v1/analytics/departments/comparison — Cross-department comparison

Location Analytics

  • GET /api/v1/analytics/locations/:id — Location-specific analytics
  • GET /api/v1/analytics/locations/utilization — Utilization rates

User Analytics

  • GET /api/v1/analytics/users/:id — User asset assignment history
  • GET /api/v1/analytics/users/activity — User activity statistics

Time-Based Analytics

  • GET /api/v1/analytics/timeline — Asset registrations over time
  • GET /api/v1/analytics/forecast — Predictive analytics (asset needs)

📦 Response Structures

Dashboard Statistics

  • Asset overview and value totals
  • Month-over-month percentage changes
  • Asset breakdowns by status and condition
  • Top categories and departments
  • Recent activity feed
  • Actionable alerts (maintenance, warranty, transfers)

Trends Data

  • Asset registrations over time
  • Total asset value growth
  • Transfer volume trends

Distribution Data

  • Asset distribution by category, department, location, and status
  • Percentages always total 100%

🧠 Business Logic

  • Real-time calculations with intelligent caching
  • Date range filtering for all analytics endpoints
  • Role-based access control:
    • Users see only authorized department data
  • Period-over-period percentage calculations
  • Efficient aggregation using database views and materialized views
  • Multi-currency support with conversion to base currency
  • Predictive analytics for asset demand forecasting
  • Anomaly detection (spikes in transfers or asset value)
  • Asset utilization rate calculations
  • Asset lifecycle cost tracking (purchase + maintenance)

🧮 Caching Strategy

  • Dashboard stats: 5-minute TTL
  • Trend data: 1-hour TTL
  • Distribution data: 15-minute TTL
  • Redis used for cache storage
  • Automatic cache invalidation on relevant data updates

⚡ Performance Optimizations

  • Database indexes on date and foreign key columns
  • Materialized views for complex aggregations
  • Scheduled refresh jobs (cron)
  • TypeORM query builder for optimized queries
  • SQL window functions for trend analysis
  • Pagination for large result sets
  • Query result caching
  • JSON aggregation optimizations
  • Connection pooling
  • Response compression for large payloads
  • Rate limiting to prevent abuse

🔧 Technical Implementation

  • ORM: TypeORM (query builder)
  • Database: Views & materialized views
  • Caching: Redis
  • Jobs: Scheduled tasks (cron)
  • Security: Role-based data filtering, rate limiting

🧪 Testing

  • Unit tests for aggregation logic
  • Validation of percentage and trend calculations
  • Cache hit/miss and invalidation scenarios
  • Role-based access enforcement
  • Large dataset performance tests

✅ Acceptance Criteria

  • Dashboard API returns accurate statistics
  • Percentage calculations are correct
  • Trend data supports configurable date ranges
  • Distribution totals equal 100%
  • Cache invalidation works correctly
  • Dashboard response time < 500ms
  • Date range filters function correctly
  • Role-based filtering enforces data access
  • Aggregations match raw data counts
  • API handles large datasets efficiently

🚀 Impact

This PR delivers a high-performance, analytics-ready API that enables rich dashboards, actionable insights, and scalable reporting capabilities for data-driven decision making.

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@yusuftomilola yusuftomilola merged commit 431198e into DistinctCodes:main Jan 24, 2026
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