Unfortunately, the Adobe Media Analytics extension does nothing more than set up the heartbeat code and instances.... it does nothing to actually track anything, and the documentation is SEVERELY lacking. 

This is similar to Display more information in the rule overview .

I would love this as a native thing, but FWIW, you can use Tagtician for this: Tagtician: Adobe Launch & DTM Debugger - Chrome Web Store

That makes sense. But most of the time, extension upgrades do not directly affect any of the things users are asking the extension to do- they're for bug fixes, or minor UX enhancements, etc. For instance, if I'm on Adobe Analytics Extension 1.7.2, and set prop7 to some value in one rule, then upgra...

I know some folks simply don't like that the handshake for https takes a little longer and for page performance reasons, prefer http.

Ideally, it would inherit whatever protocol I have on my overall library- so if I leave it "//", they are all that way, whereas if I specify "https://", they'd all be https.... though as a developer I know that's not a simple option.Alternatively, if I could specify in the Launch interface for my ad...

Yes, this has come up for a client of mine as well- for instance, if most of their site can be akamai-hosted, but a portion HAS to be self-hosted (for security concerns)- ideally they could reference one production environment through multiple methods.

I suspect Adobe is going to leave this open for someone else to develop- the joy of an open source system is everyone can wait for someone else to build it. In truth, 33 Sticks was working on making such a thing (similar to our existing pixel loader extension) when we realized it'd probably be bette...

even if I move all s.tl beacons to rules, this is still an issue.... my global variables don't fire on my s.tl rule-based beacons either.

I can see this working and is a good solution in the current set up, but I still definitely would like a way to do it without having to make sure my "global" rule gets triggered for ALL rules/beacons.