1990624 - Instrument a count or identifier of Glean inits or sessions

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Data Platform and Tools :: Glean: SDK, task, P1)

Description

[Chris H-C :chutten]

It's irritating and error-prone to group and order "health" pings to look at "pre_init" and "post_init" instrumentation from the same init.

This bug is about introducing instrumentation to make this easier.

I'm leaning towards a user-lifetime counter for number of inits, rather than a session GUID or anything since at the moment we don't have a need for something globally unique.

Comment 1

[BMO Github Automation]

Attachment: [mozilla/glean] bug 1990624 - Add running count of inits to 'health' ping (#3262)

Comment 2

[Chris H-C :chutten]

Attachment: data review request

Comment 3

[Travis Long [:travis_]]

Comment on attachment 9516153 [details]
data review request

Data Review Form

1. Is there or will there be documentation that describes the schema for the ultimate data set in a public, complete, and accurate way?

Yes, via the Glean Dictionary

2. Is there a control mechanism that allows the user to turn the data collection on and off?

Yes, via the data collection settings within the application integrating Glean

3. If the request is for permanent data collection, is there someone who will monitor the data over time?

chutten will monitor the permanent collection of this data, backed by the glean-team

4. Using the category system of data types on the Mozilla wiki, what collection type of data do the requested measurements fall under?

Category 1, Technical Data

5. Is the data collection request for default-on or default-off?

Default-on

6. Does the instrumentation include the addition of any new identifiers (whether anonymous or otherwise; e.g., username, random IDs, etc. See the appendix for more details)?

No

7. Is the data collection covered by the existing Firefox privacy notice?

Yes

8. Does the data collection use a third-party collection tool?

No

Result

data-review+

Comment 4

[Chris H-C :chutten]

chutten merged PR [mozilla/glean]: bug 1990624 - Add running count of inits to 'health' ping (#3262) in c2bea9a.