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stage: Growth
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group: Telemetry
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info: To determine the technical writer assigned to the Stage/Group associated with this page, see https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/ux/technical-writing/#designated-technical-writers
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---
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# Usage Ping Guide
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> - Introduced in GitLab Enterprise Edition 8.10.
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> - More statistics were added in GitLab Enterprise Edition 8.12.
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> - Moved to GitLab Core in 9.1.
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> - More statistics were added in GitLab Ultimate 11.2.
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This guide describes Usage Ping's purpose and how it's implemented.
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For more information about Telemetry, see:
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- [Telemetry Guide](index.md)
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- [Snowplow Guide](snowplow.md)
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More useful links:
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- [Telemetry Direction](https://about.gitlab.com/direction/telemetry/)
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- [Data Analysis Process](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/business-ops/data-team/#data-analysis-process/)
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- [Data for Product Managers](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/business-ops/data-team/programs/data-for-product-managers/)
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- [Data Infrastructure](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/business-ops/data-team/platform/infrastructure/)
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## What is Usage Ping?
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- GitLab sends a weekly payload containing usage data to GitLab Inc. Usage Ping provides high-level data to help our product, support, and sales teams. It does not send any project names, usernames, or any other specific data. The information from the usage ping is not anonymous, it is linked to the hostname of the instance. Sending usage ping is optional, and any instance can disable analytics.
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- The usage data is primarily composed of row counts for different tables in the instance’s database. By comparing these counts month over month (or week over week), we can get a rough sense for how an instance is using the different features within the product. In addition to counts, other facts
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that help us classify and understand GitLab installations are collected.
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- Usage ping is important to GitLab as we use it to calculate our Stage Monthly Active Users (SMAU) which helps us measure the success of our stages and features.
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- Once usage ping is enabled, GitLab will gather data from the other instances and will be able to show usage statistics of your instance to your users.
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### Why should we enable Usage Ping?
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- The main purpose of Usage Ping is to build a better GitLab. Data about how GitLab is used is collected to better understand feature/stage adoption and usage, which helps us understand how GitLab is adding value and helps our team better understand the reasons why people use GitLab and with this knowledge we're able to make better product decisions.
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- As a benefit of having the usage ping active, GitLab lets you analyze the users’ activities over time of your GitLab installation.
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- As a benefit of having the usage ping active, GitLab provides you with The DevOps Score,which gives you an overview of your entire instance’s adoption of Concurrent DevOps from planning to monitoring.
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- You will get better, more proactive support. (assuming that our TAMs and support organization used the data to deliver more value)
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- You will get insight and advice into how to get the most value out of your investment in GitLab. Wouldn't you want to know that a number of features or values are not being adopted in your organization?
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- You get a report that illustrates how you compare against other similar organizations (anonymized), with specific advice and recommendations on how to improve your DevOps processes.
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- Usage Ping is enabled by default. To disable it, see [Disable Usage Ping](#disable-usage-ping).
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### Limitations
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- Usage Ping does not track frontend events things like page views, link clicks, or user sessions, and only focuses on aggregated backend events.
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- Because of these limitations we recommend instrumenting your products with Snowplow for more detailed analytics on GitLab.com and use Usage Ping to track aggregated backend events on self-managed.
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## Usage Ping payload
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You can view the exact JSON payload sent to GitLab Inc. in the administration panel. To view the payload:
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1. Navigate to **Admin Area > Settings > Metrics and profiling**.
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1. Expand the **Usage statistics** section.
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1. Click the **Preview payload** button.
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For an example payload, see [Example Usage Ping payload](#example-usage-ping-payload).
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## Disable Usage Ping
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To disable Usage Ping in the GitLab UI, go to the **Settings** page of your administration panel and uncheck the **Usage Ping** checkbox.
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To disable Usage Ping and prevent it from being configured in the future through the administration panel, Omnibus installs can set the following in [`gitlab.rb`](https://docs.gitlab.com/omnibus/settings/configuration.html#configuration-options):
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```ruby
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gitlab_rails['usage_ping_enabled'] = false
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```
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Source installations can set the following in `gitlab.yml`:
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```yaml
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production: &base
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# ...
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gitlab:
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# ...
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usage_ping_enabled: false
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```
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## Usage Ping request flow
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The following example shows a basic request/response flow between a GitLab instance, the Versions Application, the License Application, Salesforce, GitLab's S3 Bucket, GitLab's Snowflake Data Warehouse, and Sisense:
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```mermaid
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sequenceDiagram
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participant GitLab Instance
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participant Versions Application
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participant Licenses Application
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participant Salesforce
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participant S3 Bucket
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participant Snowflake DW
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participant Sisense Dashboards
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GitLab Instance->>Versions Application: Send Usage Ping
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loop Process usage data
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Versions Application->>Versions Application: Parse usage data
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Versions Application->>Versions Application: Write to database
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Versions Application->>Versions Application: Update license ping time
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end
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loop Process data for Salesforce
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Versions Application-xLicenses Application: Request Zuora subscription id
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Licenses Application-xVersions Application: Zuora subscription id
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Versions Application-xSalesforce: Request Zuora account id by Zuora subscription id
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Salesforce-xVersions Application: Zuora account id
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Versions Application-xSalesforce: Usage data for the Zuora account
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end
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Versions Application->>S3 Bucket: Export Versions database
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S3 Bucket->>Snowflake DW: Import data
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Snowflake DW->>Snowflake DW: Transform data using dbt
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Snowflake DW->>Sisense Dashboards: Data available for querying
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Versions Application->>GitLab Instance: DevOps Score (Conversational Development Index)
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```
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## How Usage Ping works
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1. The Usage Ping [cron job](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/blob/master/app/workers/gitlab_usage_ping_worker.rb#L30) is set in Sidekiq to run weekly.
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1. When the cron job runs, it calls [`GitLab::UsageData.to_json`](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/blob/master/app/services/submit_usage_ping_service.rb#L22).
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1. `GitLab::UsageData.to_json` [cascades down](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/blob/master/lib/gitlab/usage_data.rb#L22) to ~400+ other counter method calls.
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1. The response of all methods calls are [merged together](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/blob/master/lib/gitlab/usage_data.rb#L14) into a single JSON payload in `GitLab::UsageData.to_json`.
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1. The JSON payload is then [posted to the Versions application]( https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/blob/master/app/services/submit_usage_ping_service.rb#L20).
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## Implementing Usage Ping
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Usage Ping consists of two kinds of data, counters and observations. Counters track how often a certain event
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happened over time, such as how many CI pipelines have run. They are monotonic and always trend up.
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Observations are facts collected from one or more GitLab instances and can carry arbitrary data. There are no
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general guidelines around how to collect those, due to the individual nature of that data.
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There are four types of counters which are all found in `usage_data.rb`:
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- **Ordinary Batch Counters:** Simple count of a given ActiveRecord_Relation
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- **Distinct Batch Counters:** Distinct count of a given ActiveRecord_Relation on given column
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- **Alternative Counters:** Used for settings and configurations
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- **Redis Counters:** Used for in-memory counts.
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NOTE: **Note:**
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Only use the provided counter methods. Each counter method contains a built in fail safe to isolate each counter to avoid breaking the entire Usage Ping.
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### Why batch counting
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For large tables, PostgreSQL can take a long time to count rows due to MVCC [(Multi-version Concurrency Control)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiversion_concurrency_control). Batch counting is a counting method where a single large query is broken into multiple smaller queries. For example, instead of a single query querying 1,000,000 records, with batch counting, you can execute 100 queries of 10,000 records each. Batch counting is useful for avoiding database timeouts as each batch query is significantly shorter than one single long running query.
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For GitLab.com, there are extremely large tables with 15 second query timeouts, so we use batch counting to avoid encountering timeouts. Here are the sizes of some GitLab.com tables:
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| Table | Row counts in millions |
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|------------------------------|------------------------|
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| `merge_request_diff_commits` | 2280 |
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| `ci_build_trace_sections` | 1764 |
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| `merge_request_diff_files` | 1082 |
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| `events` | 514 |
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There are two batch counting methods provided, `Ordinary Batch Counters` and `Distinct Batch Counters`. Batch counting requires indexes on columns to calculate max, min, and range queries. In some cases, a specialized index may need to be added on the columns involved in a counter.
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### Ordinary Batch Counters
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Handles `ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid` error
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Simple count of a given ActiveRecord_Relation, does a non-distinct batch count, smartly reduces batch_size and handles errors.
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Method: `count(relation, column = nil, batch: true, start: nil, finish: nil)`
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Arguments:
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- `relation` the ActiveRecord_Relation to perform the count
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- `column` the column to perform the count on, by default is the primary key
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- `batch`: default `true` in order to use batch counting
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- `start`: custom start of the batch counting in order to avoid complex min calculations
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- `end`: custom end of the batch counting in order to avoid complex min calculations
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Examples:
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```ruby
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count(User.active)
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count(::Clusters::Cluster.aws_installed.enabled, :cluster_id)
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count(::Clusters::Cluster.aws_installed.enabled, :cluster_id, start: ::Clusters::Cluster.minimum(:id), finish: ::Clusters::Cluster.maximum(:id))
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```
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### Distinct Batch Counters
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Handles `ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid` error
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Distinct count of a given ActiveRecord_Relation on given column, a distinct batch count, smartly reduces batch_size and handles errors.
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Method: `distinct_count(relation, column = nil, batch: true, batch_size: nil, start: nil, finish: nil)`
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Arguments:
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- `relation` the ActiveRecord_Relation to perform the count
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- `column` the column to perform the distinct count, by default is the primary key
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- `batch`: default `true` in order to use batch counting
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- `batch_size`: if none set it will use default value 10000 from `Gitlab::Database::BatchCounter`
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- `start`: custom start of the batch counting in order to avoid complex min calculations
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- `end`: custom end of the batch counting in order to avoid complex min calculations
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Examples:
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```ruby
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distinct_count(::Project, :creator_id)
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distinct_count(::Note.with_suggestions.where(time_period), :author_id, start: ::User.minimum(:id), finish: ::User.maximum(:id))
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distinct_count(::Clusters::Applications::CertManager.where(time_period).available.joins(:cluster), 'clusters.user_id')
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```
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### Redis Counters
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Handles `::Redis::CommandError` and `Gitlab::UsageDataCounters::BaseCounter::UnknownEvent`
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returns -1 when a block is sent or hash with all values -1 when a `counter(Gitlab::UsageDataCounters)` is sent
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different behavior due to 2 different implementations of Redis counter
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Method: `redis_usage_data(counter, &block)`
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Arguments:
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- `counter`: a counter from `Gitlab::UsageDataCounters`, that has `fallback_totals` method implemented
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- or a `block`: which is evaluated
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#### Ordinary Redis Counters
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Examples of implementation:
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- Using Redis methods [`INCR`](https://redis.io/commands/incr), [`GET`](https://redis.io/commands/get), and [`Gitlab::UsageDataCounters::WikiPageCounter`](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/blob/master/lib/gitlab/usage_data_counters/wiki_page_counter.rb)
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- Using Redis methods [`HINCRBY`](https://redis.io/commands/hincrby), [`HGETALL`](https://redis.io/commands/hgetall), and [`Gitlab::UsageCounters::PodLogs`](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/blob/master/lib/gitlab/usage_counters/pod_logs.rb)
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#### Redis HLL Counters
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With `Gitlab::Redis::HLL` we have available data structures used to count unique values.
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Implemented using Redis methods [PFADD](https://redis.io/commands/pfadd) and [PFCOUNT](https://redis.io/commands/pfcount).
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Recommendations:
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- Key should expire in 29 days.
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- If possible, data granularity should be a week. For example a key could be composed from the metric's name and week of the year, `2020-33-{metric_name}`.
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- Use a [feature flag](../../operations/feature_flags.md) in order to have a control over the impact when adding new metrics.
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- If possible, data granularity should be week, for example a key could be composed from metric name and week of the year, 2020-33-{metric_name}
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- Use a [feature flag](../../operations/feature_flags.md) in order to have a control over the impact when adding new metrics
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Examples of implementation:
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- [`Gitlab::UsageDataCounters::TrackUniqueActions`](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/blob/master/lib/gitlab/usage_data_counters/track_unique_actions.rb)
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- [`Gitlab::Analytics::UniqueVisits`](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/blob/master/lib/gitlab/analytics/unique_visits.rb)
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Example of usage:
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```ruby
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# Redis Counters
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redis_usage_data(Gitlab::UsageDataCounters::WikiPageCounter)
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redis_usage_data { ::Gitlab::UsageCounters::PodLogs.usage_totals[:total] }
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# Redis HLL counter
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counter = Gitlab::UsageDataCounters::TrackUniqueActions
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redis_usage_data do
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counter.count_unique_events(
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event_action: Gitlab::UsageDataCounters::TrackUniqueActions::PUSH_ACTION,
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date_from: time_period[:created_at].first,
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date_to: time_period[:created_at].last
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)
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```
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### Alternative Counters
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Handles `StandardError` and fallbacks into -1 this way not all measures fail if we encounter one exception.
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Mainly used for settings and configurations.
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Method: `alt_usage_data(value = nil, fallback: -1, &block)`
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Arguments:
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- `value`: a simple static value in which case the value is simply returned.
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- or a `block`: which is evaluated
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- `fallback: -1`: the common value used for any metrics that are failing.
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Example of usage:
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```ruby
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alt_usage_data { Gitlab::VERSION }
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alt_usage_data { Gitlab::CurrentSettings.uuid }
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alt_usage_data(999)
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```
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### Prometheus Queries
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In those cases where operational metrics should be part of Usage Ping, a database or Redis query is unlikely
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to provide useful data. Instead, Prometheus might be more appropriate, since most of GitLab's architectural
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components publish metrics to it that can be queried back, aggregated, and included as usage data.
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NOTE: **Note:**
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Prometheus as a data source for Usage Ping is currently only available for single-node Omnibus installations
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that are running the [bundled Prometheus](../../administration/monitoring/prometheus/index.md) instance.
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In order to query Prometheus for metrics, a helper method is available that will `yield` a fully configured
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`PrometheusClient`, given it is available as per the note above:
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```ruby
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with_prometheus_client do |client|
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response = client.query('<your query>')
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...
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end
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```
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Please refer to [the `PrometheusClient` definition](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/blob/master/lib/gitlab/prometheus_client.rb)
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for how to use its API to query for data.
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## Developing and testing Usage Ping
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### 1. Use your Rails console to manually test counters
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```ruby
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# count
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Gitlab::UsageData.count(User.active)
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Gitlab::UsageData.count(::Clusters::Cluster.aws_installed.enabled, :cluster_id)
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# count distinct
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Gitlab::UsageData.distinct_count(::Project, :creator_id)
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Gitlab::UsageData.distinct_count(::Note.with_suggestions.where(time_period), :author_id, start: ::User.minimum(:id), finish: ::User.maximum(:id))
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```
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### 2. Generate the SQL query
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Your Rails console will return the generated SQL queries.
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Example:
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```ruby
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pry(main)> Gitlab::UsageData.count(User.active)
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(2.6ms) SELECT "features"."key" FROM "features"
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(15.3ms) SELECT MIN("users"."id") FROM "users" WHERE ("users"."state" IN ('active')) AND ("users"."user_type" IS NULL OR "users"."user_type" IN (6, 4))
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(2.4ms) SELECT MAX("users"."id") FROM "users" WHERE ("users"."state" IN ('active')) AND ("users"."user_type" IS NULL OR "users"."user_type" IN (6, 4))
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(1.9ms) SELECT COUNT("users"."id") FROM "users" WHERE ("users"."state" IN ('active')) AND ("users"."user_type" IS NULL OR "users"."user_type" IN (6, 4)) AND "users"."id" BETWEEN 1 AND 100000
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```
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### 3. Optimize queries with #database-lab
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Paste the SQL query into `#database-lab` to see how the query performs at scale.
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- `#database-lab` is a Slack channel which uses a production-sized environment to test your queries.
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- GitLab.com’s production database has a 15 second timeout.
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- Any single query must stay below 1 second execution time with cold caches.
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- Add a specialized index on columns involved to reduce the execution time.
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In order to have an understanding of the query's execution we add in the MR description the following information:
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- For counters that have a `time_period` test we add information for both cases:
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- `time_period = {}` for all time periods
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- `time_period = { created_at: 28.days.ago..Time.current }` for last 28 days period
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- Execution plan and query time before and after optimization
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- Query generated for the index and time
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- Migration output for up and down execution
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We also use `#database-lab` and [explain.depesz.com](https://explain.depesz.com/). For more details, see the [database review guide](../database_review.md#preparation-when-adding-or-modifying-queries).
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#### Optimization recommendations and examples
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- Use specialized indexes [example 1](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/26871), [example 2](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/26445).
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- Use defined `start` and `finish`, and simple queries, because these values can be memoized and reused, [example](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/37155).
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- Avoid joins and write the queries as simply as possible, [example](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/36316).
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- Set a custom `batch_size` for `distinct_count`, [example](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/38000).
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### 4. Add the metric definition
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When adding, changing, or updating metrics, please update the [Event Dictionary's **Usage Ping** table](event_dictionary.md).
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### 5. Add new metric to Versions Application
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Check if new metrics need to be added to the Versions Application. See `usage_data` [schema](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-services/version-gitlab-com/-/blob/master/db/schema.rb#L147) and usage data [parameters accepted](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-services/version-gitlab-com/-/blob/master/app/services/usage_ping.rb). Any metrics added under the `counts` key are saved in the `counts` column.
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For further details, see the [Process to add additional instrumentation to the Usage Ping](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/product/product-processes/#process-to-add-additional-instrumentation-to-the-usage-ping).
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### 6. Add the feature label
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Add the `feature` label to the Merge Request for new Usage Ping metrics. These are user-facing changes and are part of expanding the Usage Ping feature.
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### 7. Add a changelog file
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Ensure you comply with the [Changelog entries guide](../changelog.md).
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### 8. Ask for a Telemetry Review
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On GitLab.com, we have DangerBot setup to monitor Telemetry related files and DangerBot will recommend a Telemetry review. Mention `@gitlab-org/growth/telemetry/engineers` in your MR for a review.
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### 9. Verify your metric
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On GitLab.com, the Product Analytics team regularly monitors Usage Ping. They may alert you that your metrics need further optimization to run quicker and with greater success. You may also use the [Usage Ping QA dashboard](https://app.periscopedata.com/app/gitlab/632033/Usage-Ping-QA) to check how well your metric performs. The dashboard allows filtering by GitLab version, by "Self-managed" & "Saas" and shows you how many failures have occurred for each metric. Whenever you notice a high failure rate, you may re-optimize your metric.
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### Optional: Test Prometheus based Usage Ping
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If the data submitted includes metrics [queried from Prometheus](#prometheus-queries) that you would like to inspect and verify,
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then you need to ensure that a Prometheus server is running locally, and that furthermore the respective GitLab components
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are exporting metrics to it. If you do not need to test data coming from Prometheus, no further action
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is necessary, since Usage Ping should degrade gracefully in the absence of a running Prometheus server.
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There are currently three kinds of components that may export data to Prometheus, and which are included in Usage Ping:
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- [`node_exporter`](https://github.com/prometheus/node_exporter) - Exports node metrics from the host machine
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- [`gitlab-exporter`](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-exporter) - Exports process metrics from various GitLab components
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- various GitLab services such as Sidekiq and the Rails server that export their own metrics
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#### Test with an Omnibus container
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This is the recommended approach to test Prometheus based Usage Ping.
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The easiest way to verify your changes is to build a new Omnibus image from your code branch via CI, then download the image
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and run a local container instance:
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1. From your merge request, click on the `qa` stage, then trigger the `package-and-qa` job. This job will trigger an Omnibus
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build in a [downstream pipeline of the `omnibus-gitlab-mirror` project](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/build/omnibus-gitlab-mirror/-/pipelines).
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1. In the downstream pipeline, wait for the `gitlab-docker` job to finish.
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1. Open the job logs and locate the full container name including the version. It will take the following form: `registry.gitlab.com/gitlab-org/build/omnibus-gitlab-mirror/gitlab-ee:<VERSION>`.
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1. On your local machine, make sure you are logged in to the GitLab Docker registry. You can find the instructions for this in
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[Authenticating to the GitLab Container Registry](../../user/packages/container_registry/index.md#authenticating-to-the-gitlab-container-registry).
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1. Once logged in, download the new image via `docker pull registry.gitlab.com/gitlab-org/build/omnibus-gitlab-mirror/gitlab-ee:<VERSION>`
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1. For more information about working with and running Omnibus GitLab containers in Docker, please refer to [GitLab Docker images](https://docs.gitlab.com/omnibus/docker/README.html) in the Omnibus documentation.
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#### Test with GitLab development toolkits
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This is the less recommended approach, since it comes with a number of difficulties when emulating a real GitLab deployment.
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The [GDK](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-development-kit) is not currently set up to run a Prometheus server or `node_exporter` alongside other GitLab components. If you would
|
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like to do so, [Monitoring the GDK with Prometheus](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-development-kit/-/blob/master/doc/howto/prometheus/index.md#monitoring-the-gdk-with-prometheus) is a good start.
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|
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The [GCK](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-compose-kit) has limited support for testing Prometheus based Usage Ping.
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By default, it already comes with a fully configured Prometheus service that is set up to scrape a number of components,
|
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but with the following limitations:
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|
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- It does not currently run a `gitlab-exporter` instance, so several `process_*` metrics from services such as Gitaly may be missing.
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- While it runs a `node_exporter`, `docker-compose` services emulate hosts, meaning that it would normally report itself to not be associated
|
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with any of the other services that are running. That is not how node metrics are reported in a production setup, where `node_exporter`
|
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always runs as a process alongside other GitLab components on any given node. From Usage Ping's perspective none of the node data would therefore
|
||
appear to be associated to any of the services running, since they all appear to be running on different hosts. To alleviate this problem, the `node_exporter` in GCK was arbitrarily "assigned" to the `web` service, meaning only for this service `node_*` metrics will appear in Usage Ping.
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## Example Usage Ping payload
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The following is example content of the Usage Ping payload.
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```json
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{
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||
"uuid": "0000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",
|
||
"hostname": "example.com",
|
||
"version": "12.10.0-pre",
|
||
"installation_type": "omnibus-gitlab",
|
||
"active_user_count": 999,
|
||
"recorded_at": "2020-04-17T07:43:54.162+00:00",
|
||
"edition": "EEU",
|
||
"license_md5": "00000000000000000000000000000000",
|
||
"license_id": null,
|
||
"historical_max_users": 999,
|
||
"licensee": {
|
||
"Name": "ABC, Inc.",
|
||
"Email": "email@example.com",
|
||
"Company": "ABC, Inc."
|
||
},
|
||
"license_user_count": 999,
|
||
"license_starts_at": "2020-01-01",
|
||
"license_expires_at": "2021-01-01",
|
||
"license_plan": "ultimate",
|
||
"license_add_ons": {
|
||
},
|
||
"license_trial": false,
|
||
"counts": {
|
||
"assignee_lists": 999,
|
||
"boards": 999,
|
||
"ci_builds": 999,
|
||
...
|
||
},
|
||
"container_registry_enabled": true,
|
||
"dependency_proxy_enabled": false,
|
||
"gitlab_shared_runners_enabled": true,
|
||
"gravatar_enabled": true,
|
||
"influxdb_metrics_enabled": true,
|
||
"ldap_enabled": false,
|
||
"mattermost_enabled": false,
|
||
"omniauth_enabled": true,
|
||
"prometheus_enabled": false,
|
||
"prometheus_metrics_enabled": false,
|
||
"reply_by_email_enabled": "incoming+%{key}@incoming.gitlab.com",
|
||
"signup_enabled": true,
|
||
"web_ide_clientside_preview_enabled": true,
|
||
"ingress_modsecurity_enabled": true,
|
||
"projects_with_expiration_policy_disabled": 999,
|
||
"projects_with_expiration_policy_enabled": 999,
|
||
...
|
||
"elasticsearch_enabled": true,
|
||
"license_trial_ends_on": null,
|
||
"geo_enabled": false,
|
||
"git": {
|
||
"version": {
|
||
"major": 2,
|
||
"minor": 26,
|
||
"patch": 1
|
||
}
|
||
},
|
||
"gitaly": {
|
||
"version": "12.10.0-rc1-93-g40980d40",
|
||
"servers": 56,
|
||
"clusters": 14,
|
||
"filesystems": [
|
||
"EXT_2_3_4"
|
||
]
|
||
},
|
||
"gitlab_pages": {
|
||
"enabled": true,
|
||
"version": "1.17.0"
|
||
},
|
||
"container_registry_server": {
|
||
"vendor": "gitlab",
|
||
"version": "2.9.1-gitlab"
|
||
},
|
||
"database": {
|
||
"adapter": "postgresql",
|
||
"version": "9.6.15"
|
||
},
|
||
"avg_cycle_analytics": {
|
||
"issue": {
|
||
"average": 999,
|
||
"sd": 999,
|
||
"missing": 999
|
||
},
|
||
"plan": {
|
||
"average": null,
|
||
"sd": 999,
|
||
"missing": 999
|
||
},
|
||
"code": {
|
||
"average": null,
|
||
"sd": 999,
|
||
"missing": 999
|
||
},
|
||
"test": {
|
||
"average": null,
|
||
"sd": 999,
|
||
"missing": 999
|
||
},
|
||
"review": {
|
||
"average": null,
|
||
"sd": 999,
|
||
"missing": 999
|
||
},
|
||
"staging": {
|
||
"average": null,
|
||
"sd": 999,
|
||
"missing": 999
|
||
},
|
||
"production": {
|
||
"average": null,
|
||
"sd": 999,
|
||
"missing": 999
|
||
},
|
||
"total": 999
|
||
},
|
||
"analytics_unique_visits": {
|
||
"g_analytics_contribution": 999,
|
||
...
|
||
},
|
||
"usage_activity_by_stage": {
|
||
"configure": {
|
||
"project_clusters_enabled": 999,
|
||
...
|
||
},
|
||
"create": {
|
||
"merge_requests": 999,
|
||
...
|
||
},
|
||
"manage": {
|
||
"events": 999,
|
||
...
|
||
},
|
||
"monitor": {
|
||
"clusters": 999,
|
||
...
|
||
},
|
||
"package": {
|
||
"projects_with_packages": 999
|
||
},
|
||
"plan": {
|
||
"issues": 999,
|
||
...
|
||
},
|
||
"release": {
|
||
"deployments": 999,
|
||
...
|
||
},
|
||
"secure": {
|
||
"user_container_scanning_jobs": 999,
|
||
...
|
||
},
|
||
"verify": {
|
||
"ci_builds": 999,
|
||
...
|
||
}
|
||
},
|
||
"usage_activity_by_stage_monthly": {
|
||
"configure": {
|
||
"project_clusters_enabled": 999,
|
||
...
|
||
},
|
||
"create": {
|
||
"merge_requests": 999,
|
||
...
|
||
},
|
||
"manage": {
|
||
"events": 999,
|
||
...
|
||
},
|
||
"monitor": {
|
||
"clusters": 999,
|
||
...
|
||
},
|
||
"package": {
|
||
"projects_with_packages": 999
|
||
},
|
||
"plan": {
|
||
"issues": 999,
|
||
...
|
||
},
|
||
"release": {
|
||
"deployments": 999,
|
||
...
|
||
},
|
||
"secure": {
|
||
"user_container_scanning_jobs": 999,
|
||
...
|
||
},
|
||
"verify": {
|
||
"ci_builds": 999,
|
||
...
|
||
}
|
||
},
|
||
"topology": {
|
||
"duration_s": 0.013836685999194742,
|
||
"application_requests_per_hour": 4224,
|
||
"failures": [],
|
||
"nodes": [
|
||
{
|
||
"node_memory_total_bytes": 33269903360,
|
||
"node_memory_utilization": 0.35,
|
||
"node_cpus": 16,
|
||
"node_cpu_utilization": 0.2,
|
||
"node_uname_info": {
|
||
"machine": "x86_64",
|
||
"sysname": "Linux",
|
||
"release": "4.19.76-linuxkit"
|
||
},
|
||
"node_services": [
|
||
{
|
||
"name": "web",
|
||
"process_count": 16,
|
||
"process_memory_pss": 233349888,
|
||
"process_memory_rss": 788220927,
|
||
"process_memory_uss": 195295487,
|
||
"server": "puma"
|
||
},
|
||
{
|
||
"name": "sidekiq",
|
||
"process_count": 1,
|
||
"process_memory_pss": 734080000,
|
||
"process_memory_rss": 750051328,
|
||
"process_memory_uss": 731533312
|
||
},
|
||
...
|
||
],
|
||
...
|
||
},
|
||
...
|
||
]
|
||
}
|
||
}
|
||
```
|