807031 - submit telemetry on whether social sidebar is visible

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 851653

(Firefox Graveyard :: SocialAPI, defect)

Description

[(dormant account)]

This would be helpful to track down possible regressions in tabswitch, session-store, etc.

Comment 1

[Jared Wein [:jaws] (please needinfo? me)]

How does Telemetry handle correlation? What if the user toggles the sidebar on/off in the same session?

Comment 2

[(dormant account)]

Sorry for the delay, had to think about this. Really sucks to not have 2d histograms for this. I think the most useful way to do this is to add a SOCIAL_SIDEBAR_DURATION. This would be the sum of all time with social sidebar was visible(ie one histogram entry per sidebar show/hide cycle). We could then use SOCIAL_SIDEBAR_DURATION.sum/uptime to gauge which sessions were significantly affected.

Comment 3

[Jared Wein [:jaws] (please needinfo? me)]

I'm still confused about how we will try to connect two histograms. Is that possible?

Comment 4

[Vladan Djeric (:vladan)]

(In reply to Jared Wein [:jaws] from comment #3)
> I'm still confused about how we will try to connect two histograms. Is that
> possible?

I can't think of a good way. You could have a separate histogram for TABSWITCH_WITH_SOCIAL_ENABLED and then compare it with the existing tabswitch measure, but that's hacky.

Perhaps Taras meant that the SOCIAL_SIDEBAR_DURATION histogram would be helpful when analyzing raw individual pings?

Comment 5

[(dormant account)]

(In reply to Vladan Djeric (:vladan) from comment #4)
> (In reply to Jared Wein [:jaws] from comment #3)
> > I'm still confused about how we will try to connect two histograms. Is that
> > possible?
> 
> Perhaps Taras meant that the SOCIAL_SIDEBAR_DURATION histogram would be
> helpful when analyzing raw individual pings?

yes. Lets do this.