Temporary increase in main ping submissions

[Mark Reid]

I believe the increased pings are legitimate, and seem to have been
triggered by a new release of the firefox-hotfix addon.

The bug[2] has been updated with more details if you're interested.

Thanks for the suggestions from folks who chimed in!

Mark

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1346343#c3

On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 5:19 PM, Mark Reid <mreid at mozilla.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I spent some time investigating this problem today, and came up with a
> couple of data points.
>
> 1. There was a large increase in submissions from the ESR channel at
> around the same time, which Peter was kind enough to help me track down to
> the work in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1318922 .
> Unfortunately, if I filter out submissions from ESR, the spike still
> appears plain as ever, so this is not the explanation for the increase.
>
> 2. There was also an increase in submissions where the "reason" field is
> set to "environment-change". These submissions *do* seem to correlate very
> strongly with the observed spike, and are my leading hypothesis for the
> explanation. So far I don't have any good explanation of why there was an
> increase in this type of ping.
>
> If you are interested in the analysis behind the above, let me know and
> I'll send you the jupyter notebook. It contains some client counts and so I
> can't make it public without scrubbing it (which I plan to do in due
> course).
>
> Again, if you have any suggestions for directions to take for further
> investigation, I'm happy to hear them.
>
> Thanks
>
> Mark
>
> On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 5:43 PM, Mark Reid <mreid at mozilla.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Per bug 1346343 <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1346343>
>> there was an apparent short-lived (but significant) increase in main ping
>> submission rate on March 9th.
>>
>> I am doing some investigations to find out why that might be, but if you
>> already know (or have any hypotheses you'd like to suggest), please let me
>> know.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Mark
>>
>
>
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