https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72365
Bug ID: 72365
Summary: Add test flag to EventLogging
Product: Analytics
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: EventLogging
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
CC: [email protected],
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Mobile Platform: ---
EventLogging currently doesn't allow flagging specific events (or events
originating from a specific client/IP address/IP range) as "test events". As a
result, the production logs are filled with spurious events originating from
hosts such as "localhost", "MyWiki.local" etc.
This is problematic because data consumers often query/count events unaware
that they need to filter out these events. Whitelisting production hosts on the
data consumer end is not a practical option. Engineers are resorting to hacks
like [1] to address this problem, but a test flag doesn't belong in a data
model. Instead, we need to support a test mode that the client can enable which
will flag any incoming event as test. If the event passes validation, it should
be stored in a different log (it could be a <schema_name>_<schema_revid>_test
table or a table in a separate db) to allow data QA and troubleshooting.
[1] see "testing" field in
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Schema:MobileWebWikiGrokResponse
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