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 >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Analytics mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Analytics mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Analytics mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics > >
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