Open Bug 1157717 Opened 9 years ago Updated 2 years ago

Use gzip instead lz4 compression for pings stored on disk

Categories

(Toolkit :: Telemetry, defect, P4)

Product:
Toolkit
Component:
Telemetry
Type:
defect

Tracking

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Tracking Flags:
Tracking Status
firefox40 --- affected

People

(Reporter: gfritzsche, Unassigned)

References

(Blocks 1 open bug)

Details

(Whiteboard: [measurement:client]) 

Bug 1156253 will make us compress pings with lz4 when saving to disk.

Because we use a non-standard lz4 format, we want this to move over to gzip compression so pings can be inspected using non-standard tools.
Depends on: 1157719
Blocks: 1201022
No longer blocks: 1122482
(In reply to Georg Fritzsche [:gfritzsche] from comment #0)
> Bug 1156253 will make us compress pings with lz4 when saving to disk.
> 
> Because we use a non-standard lz4 format, we want this to move over to gzip
> compression so pings can be inspected using non-standard tools.

I imagine you, of course, meant "so pings can be inspected using *standard* tools".

See also bug 1209390.
Priority: -- → P4
Whiteboard: [measurement:client]
Severity: normal → S3
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