Event Telemetry now sent on "event" pings instead of "main" pings

[Chris Hutten-Czapski]

More details in a more narrative-focused format can be found in the blog
post here:
https://chuttenblog.wordpress.com/2018/07/04/faster-event-telemetry-with-event-pings/

:chutten


On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 10:02 AM Chris Hutten-Czapski <chutten at mozilla.com>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
>   Due to a forecast increase in demand for Event Telemetry, we have (via
> bug 1460595) moved Event Telemetry transmission from the "main" ping to
> special-purpose "event" pings.
>
>   This has a couple of benefits, most notably that they are sent more
> often (less latency) and can also send more event records (less/no
> truncation).
>
>   After a few days to a week I will be performing some validation analysis
> (via bug 1463410) of the contents and behaviours of these pings. If it all
> checks out we plan to uplift it to Beta 62.
>
>   This news should mostly only matter to you if you analyze events in situ
> within a ping. If the words "Spark," "ATMO," and "Databricks" mean little
> or nothing to you, then you can probably just take from this that we are
> just, once again, making things a bit better. Which we really enjoy doing :)
>
> As always, please do reach out if you have any questions or concerns.
>
> Your Friendly Neighbourhood Firefox Telemetry Team
> (:gfritzsche, :Dexter, :chutten, :janerik)
>
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