Admin Usage Trends should show monthly usage and average usage per month

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Context

The graphs on the Admin Area | Analytics | Usage Trends show the incremental all time value for the data points. See screenshot below:

There are several problems with this approach:

• All Time spans a period of time that is larger than the graph will show.
• The graph isn't specific on what data it is showing, so you have the guess the meaning of the values.
• The max value below the graph is automatically always the value of the last month, since it is incremental. So there is little use in that value.
• The average value doesn't say anything. You would expect the average to give you the average number of objects per month, but it isn't.

NOTE that the documentation on Usage Trends shows a graph that supports this proposal although that is not how it is currently working. So documentation needs an update too.

Proposal

Instead of using the All Time value, use the L28D value to show the number of objects in the last 28 days. This gives a graph that shows monthly product usage that goes up and down. Admins can now see if the adoption increases or declines.

With this change, the average would give you an average usage per month for the give period, with the max being now being the highest usage. You could also add a sum value there to give a total usage for the given period or collect the all time value as well to show it underneath the graph.

This way, admins can truly see how platform usage is evolving and use the numbers to inform management on their progress.