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authorYorick Peterse <yorickpeterse@gmail.com>2016-08-16 16:18:48 +0200
committerYorick Peterse <yorickpeterse@gmail.com>2016-08-17 10:04:04 +0200
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Tracking of custom eventscustom-events-tracking
GitLab Performance Monitoring is now able to track custom events not directly related to application performance. These events include the number of tags pushed, repositories created, builds registered, etc. The use of these events is to get a better overview of how a GitLab instance is used and how that may affect performance. For example, a large number of Git pushes may have a negative impact on the underlying storage engine. Events are stored in the "events" measurement and are not prefixed with "rails_" or "sidekiq_", this makes it easier to query events with the same name triggered from different parts of the application. All events being stored in the same measurement also makes it easier to downsample data. Currently the following events are tracked: * Creating repositories * Removing repositories * Changing the default branch of a repository * Pushing a new tag * Removing an existing tag * Pushing a commit (along with the branch being pushed to) * Pushing a new branch * Removing an existing branch * Importing a repository (along with the URL we're importing) * Forking a repository (along with the source/target path) * CI builds registered (and when no build could be found) * CI builds being updated * Rails and Sidekiq exceptions Fixes gitlab-org/gitlab-ce#13720
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@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ The following measurements are currently stored in InfluxDB:
- `PROCESS_object_counts`
- `PROCESS_transactions`
- `PROCESS_views`
+- `events`
Here, `PROCESS` is replaced with either `rails` or `sidekiq` depending on the
process type. In all series, any form of duration is stored in milliseconds.
@@ -78,6 +79,14 @@ following value fields are available:
The `action` tag contains the action name of the transaction that rendered the
view.
+## events
+
+This measurement is used to store generic events such as the number of Git
+pushes, Emails sent, etc. Each point in this measurement has a single value
+field called `count`. The value of this field is simply set to `1`. Each point
+also has at least one tag: `event`. This tag's value is set to the event name.
+Depending on the event type additional tags may be available as well.
+
---
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