1464138 - Browser Error Reports are getting ratelimited

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: General, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Osmose [:osmose, :mkelly]]

When sending an error report to Sentry for the Firefox JS Error project, I'm receiving a "429 Too many requests" response from the nginx sitting in front of it.

I asked wezhou last week what the stats were for nginx rate-limiting incoming errors for the project:

> total requests for today: 1455004, rate limited: 1448907

That's over 99.5% of errors being rate-limited. The current limit is set to 30 errors per-minute.

We should bump that rate limit up a bit, but a large amount of those errors are not immediately useful to us as well:

- We do no client-side filtering of errors caused by add-ons.
- We send errors from out-of-date Nightlies that don't have fixes that have already landed. 
- We send errors for known issues that have a large amount of entries in Sentry already; collecting more data for these issues isn't terribly useful for us.

The goal of this bug is to get our error-sending rate to a point where the rate limit isn't constantly being hit.

Comment 1

[Justin Dolske [:Dolske]]

[Triage driveby: sounds like this is being worked on in dep bugs, so calling this P3]

Comment 2

[Osmose [:osmose, :mkelly]]

JavaScript error collection is being shut down and has already been removed from Nightly, so this isn't relevant anymore.