Developer account for ArcGIS Online access

If you or your organization don’t have access to ArcGIS Online (AGOL), but you still want to get your hands dirty with it, you have the possibility to sign up for an ArcGIS Developer account (here: https://developers.arcgis.com/en/sign-up/). You get access to all kinds of SDKs, you get 50 credits per month, but the best is: you get your very own ArcGIS Online organizational account. There is only one member of your organization (yes: you), but otherwise you’re able to use almost every feature of ArcGIS (for development purposes).

As you might guess: my AGOL is located at ahgvn.maps.arcgis.com.

ArcGIS Online for ahgvn

Managing and monitoring your ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Server items

We (the geoinformation management group  of  Royal HaskoningDHV) are extensively using ArcGIS Online (AGOL) and ArcGIS for Server (AGS) for all kinds of applications. Since some time, Esri is providing users of ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS for Server with more and more sophisticated tools to manage and monitor data, services, webmaps and webapps. Here are a few:

• the good old REST directory is one (http://services.yourorganisation.com/arcgis/rest/services, e.g. the AGS of the European Environmental Agency http://discomap.eea.europa.eu/arcgis/rest/services)
• this also works for your AGOL Organizational account (http://services.arcgis.com/unique_identifier_of_your_organization/arcgis/rest/services). You can check this if you view the URL to the services you’ve published to AGOL.
• the management pages of your own AGS: http://services.yourorganisation.com/arcgis/manager (don’t forget to secure this…)
• AGOL Services Status, showing the … hm … status of your services: http://maps.esri.com/AGSJS_Demos/OnlineContent/ServiceStatus/index.html (works only with administrator account of AGOL Organizational account)
• AGOL Online Assistant, for managing AGOL items, such as changing URL in webmaps and copying items between accounts:  https://ago-assistant.esri.com/.
• AGOL Activity Dashboard:  http://activitydashboard.arcgis.com/orgusage.html, showing you all kind of stats for your organization.
• Your account on https://developers.arcgis.com (login first). On the top right you can get detailed information on all data, tools, applications, usage etc in AGOL.
  

  My usage summary on developers.arcgis.com

• One I have not used myself yet, but sounds very interesting: ArcGIS System Monitor for your server system
• And if you’re admin four your AGOL Organizational account you can view the stats on http://some_prefix.maps.arcgis.com/home/status.html.

UPDATE:

• The credit estimator for ArcGIS Online: http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/arcgisonline/credits/estimator

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