Thanks Toby! This change will be deployed today.
On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 11:53 AM, Toby Negrin <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Madhu -- it's great to see the analytics team working proactively > on things like this. > > -Toby > > On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 10:18 AM, Madhumitha Viswanathan < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> The analytics team, in an effort to collect sensitive data less, plans to >> drop the clientIP field from the EventCapsule( >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Schema:EventCapsule), which is the >> wrapper for all events flowing into Eventlogging (Currently IPs and User >> Agents get purged after the 90 days mark). The field was originally meant >> only for debugging, but has served some research usecases. Most of these >> cases have been wrapped up at this point. It has also been used as a proxy >> to count number of devices visiting sites like our blog - and since IP's >> are not a good measure of that anyway - we plan to move such cases to use >> Piwik. >> >> The rollout of the change will happen in stages (Drop clientIPs first on >> the EL end, then the EventCapsule in meta, and finally on the VarnishKafka >> end). It should be a clean deployment and there's no scheduled downtime - >> EL will keep working as is. What does change? ClientIP's will start being >> set as NULL in your mysql tables. If you update the Eventlogging schema you >> maintain - causing new tables to be created, the new tables will not have >> the clientIp field in them. The change is planned to be rolled out the week >> of 11th or 18th March '16, pending the completion of data collection for >> the ongoing QuickSurveys based research work. >> >> Let us know if you have any questions/concerns on the list or on >> #wikimedia-analytics. The related phab ticket is here - >> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128407. >> >> Thanks, >> Madhu Viswanathan >> Software Engineer, 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 > > -- --Madhu :)
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