mozilla / glam

Mozilla's primary interactive dashboard for examining the distribution of telemetry values.
https://glam.telemetry.mozilla.org
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`string_list` metrics are not supported by GLAM #1566

Closed wlach closed 9 months ago

wlach commented 3 years ago

Similar to events, string_list metrics are not supported by GLAM:

https://dictionary.telemetry.mozilla.org/apps/fenix/metrics/metrics_mozilla_products

I'm not sure how important this actually is, but getting an issue on file.

According to @chutten: "The way we handled this for string_list-like things in the past was to have an open-ended aggregation. Every time we saw a new string value we started counting them"

chutten commented 3 years ago

This sort of aggregation is expensive and never-ending, which might not be philosophically (or monetarily) amenable to GLAM's architecture... but if it is, then counts of clients who ever sent the most popularly-seen N strings in a list would be nice.

wlach commented 3 years ago

FWIW here's a list of string_list metrics used in Fenix: https://dictionary.telemetry.mozilla.org/apps/fenix?page=1&search=string_list

rafrombrc commented 9 months ago

The "this probe type is not supported" page links to the glean dictionary for the probe in question, which seems like a good resolution.