Gilles:

And we know this data is coming via varnishkafka into the cluster, right?
Did we checked that?

Thanks,

Nuria



On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 2:02 AM, Gilles Dubuc <[email protected]> wrote:

> Our solution for this is now live.
>
> Here's an example of a media beacon hit:
>
>
> http://bits.wikimedia.org/beacon/media?duration=3709&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.beta.wmflabs.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fen%2Fthumb%2Fb%2Fb0%2FSunrise_over_fishing_boats_in_Kerala.jpg%2F640px-Sunrise_over_fishing_boats_in_Kerala.jpg
>
> Beta is currently hitting that endpoint and production wikis will start
> doing the same once they start running 1.25wmf22
>
> All views coming from Media Viewer will be hitting that endpoint. Note
> that there might be some loss of hits on browsers that don't support
> sendBeacon, since our fallback is a simple async AJAX request (we haven't
> tried to go beyond that with local storage and replaying the event, etc.)
> and this event might be fired in situations of tab/browser close as well as
> navigating away from the page. Thus keep in mind that a steady small
> increase of those hits over a long period of time might simply be the
> natural process of people upgrading their browsers to more modern ones.
>
> On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 4:46 PM, Nuria Ruiz <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> >A dummy image request seems rather reasonable. (I assume varnish can
>> handle such load of "atypical" requests.)
>> Right, the filtering for beacons is already in place in vcl and responses
>> are sent right away so as far as I know there is no better place than
>> varnish for this code. See example:
>>
>> https://github.com/wikimedia/operations-puppet/blob/production/templates/varnish/bits.inc.vcl.erb#L24
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 10:38 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) <[email protected]
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> Gergo Tisza, 04/02/2015 21:00:
>>>
>>>> Do you see any fundamental problem with this?
>>>>
>>>
>>> A dummy image request seems rather reasonable. (I assume varnish can
>>> handle such load of "atypical" requests.)
>>> Making additional requests is ugly, but until we get SPDY our articles
>>> typically make dozens or hundreds requests, so the effect looks negligible.
>>>
>>> Nemo
>>>
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