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    Record counters for request apdex · bae6efb8
    Bob Van Landuyt authored
    With this, we'll emit 2 new counters from web processes that can be
    used to monitor apdex.
    
    The `gitlab_sli:rails_request_apdex:total` counter is incremented for
    every successful (not a 500) that is not to a health endpoint.
    
    The `gitlab_sli:rails_request_apdex:success_total` is incremented when
    the request took less than 1 second. We intend to customize this value
    per endpoint in the future.
    
    Both these counters are labelled with `feature_category` and
    `endpoint_id` from the context.
    
    The metrics would also be initialized on the first scrape. This means
    that a 0 would be available for every set of labels, avoiding bugs in
    calculations with these metrics.
    
    To get to all of the `feature_category`s and `endpoint_id`s for the
    initialization, we had to move some code that iterates all endpoints
    that was only used in tests to the application.
    
    We know this would initialize about 2 * 2500 metrics per pod
    running a web server. So we'd like to roll this out in a controlled
    fashion, to make sure this doesn't impact our monitoring. Which is why
    this is feature flagged.
    
    This also limits the initialization of these metrics to just
    web-processes. So they don't get generated for consoles or runner
    processes.
    
    This also includes a developer-api to define SLIs and encourages
    initializing them with the known label sets.
    bae6efb8
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