1853397 - Add Windows Insider Build Channel information to telemetry

Status: NEW

(External Software Affecting Firefox :: Telemetry, enhancement)

Description

[Max Christian Pohle [:/dev/max]]

A possibility to filter telemetry data based on a certain Windows Insider Build could help us to become more pro-active and predict errors before the next official Windows Update. It is noteworthy, that there is now also a Canary Channel available for insider builds, which includes features for long-term testing and that the Dev Channel remains the channel to test the latest technology and there is also a Beta Channel and Release Preview Channel.

For that reason we want to have the exact Insider Channel information in our telemetry data for the installer, WDBA and in general legacy/Glean telemetry. David Rubino discovered, that the value could be taken from HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsSelfHost\UI\Selection\UIBranch

Comment 1

[Nick Alexander :nalexander [he/him]]

There are a few places we'd like this:

1. in the legacy telemetry environment (like windowsUBR);
2. in Glean (perhaps more generally, i.e., sibling to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1802094)
3. in the WDBA telemetry (which might be handled by Glean generally).