Get insight into how long workspaces are active

Problem to solve

The intended purpose of workspaces are to be ephemeral, personal development environments. But we don't know how long "ephemeral" means? Are developers using these for 20 minutes? 20 hours? 2 weeks?

Proposal

Find a way to report the average, median, and mean duration a workspace exists in each state.

Questions

Tracking needs to be anonymous for security, but can we track a timestamp or duration spent in each state then report that back? Will that be too much data?

If we know how long something spent in each state we can extract:

• total time spent in a non-terminated state
• average, max, and median time spent "starting up"