Commit 0d337128 authored by Jerome Ng's avatar Jerome Ng Committed by Russell Dickenson

Fix broken links and add backend tracking into snowplow

This change combines backend tracking into snowplow
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## Telemetry guides
- [Introduction](../telemetry/index.md)
- [Frontend tracking guide](../telemetry/frontend.md)
- [Backend tracking guide](../telemetry/backend.md)
- [Snowplow tracking guide](../telemetry/snowplow.md)
## Experiment Guide
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# Backend tracking guide
GitLab provides `Gitlab::Tracking`, an interface that wraps the [Snowplow Ruby Tracker](https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow/wiki/ruby-tracker) for tracking custom events.
## Tracking in Ruby
Custom event tracking and instrumentation can be added by directly calling the `GitLab::Tracking.event` class method, which accepts the following arguments:
| argument | type | default value | description |
|:-----------|:-------|:---------------------------|:------------|
| `category` | string | 'application' | Area or aspect of the application. This could be `HealthCheckController` or `Lfs::FileTransformer` for instance. |
| `action` | string | 'generic' | The action being taken, which can be anything from a controller action like `create` to something like an Active Record callback. |
| `data` | object | {} | Additional data such as `label`, `property`, `value`, and `context` as described [in our Feature Instrumentation taxonomy](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/product/feature-instrumentation/#taxonomy). These will be set as empty strings if you don't provide them. |
Tracking can be viewed as either tracking user behavior, or can be utilized for instrumentation to monitor and visual performance over time in an area or aspect of code.
For example:
```ruby
class Projects::CreateService < BaseService
def execute
project = Project.create(params)
Gitlab::Tracking.event('Projects::CreateService', 'create_project',
label: project.errors.full_messages.to_sentence,
value: project.valid?
)
end
end
```
### Performance
We use the [AsyncEmitter](https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow/wiki/Ruby-Tracker#52-the-asyncemitter-class) when tracking events, which allows for instrumentation calls to be run in a background thread. This is still an active area of development.
......@@ -36,14 +36,10 @@ Generally speaking, the frontend can track user actions and events, like:
- Submitting forms.
- Other typically interface-driven actions.
See [Frontend tracking guide](frontend.md).
### Backend
From the backend, the events that are tracked will likely consist of things like the creation or deletion of records and other events that might be triggered from layers that aren't necessarily only available in the interface.
See [Backend tracking guide](backend.md).
Also, see [Instrumenting Ruby code](../development/instrumentation.md) if you are instrumenting application performance metrics for Ruby code.
## Enabling tracking
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# Frontend tracking guide
# Snowplow tracking guide
## Frontend tracking
GitLab provides `Tracking`, an interface that wraps the [Snowplow JavaScript Tracker](https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow/wiki/javascript-tracker) for tracking custom events. There are a few ways to utilize tracking, but each generally requires at minimum, a `category` and an `action`. Additional data can be provided that adheres to our [Feature instrumentation taxonomy](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/product/feature-instrumentation/#taxonomy).
......@@ -8,7 +10,7 @@ GitLab provides `Tracking`, an interface that wraps the [Snowplow JavaScript Tra
| `action` | string | 'generic' | Action the user is taking. Clicks should be `click` and activations should be `activate`, so for example, focusing a form field would be `activate_form_input`, and clicking a button would be `click_button`. |
| `data` | object | {} | Additional data such as `label`, `property`, `value`, and `context` as described [in our Feature Instrumentation taxonomy](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/product/feature-instrumentation/#taxonomy). |
## Tracking in HAML (or Vue Templates)
### Tracking in HAML (or Vue Templates)
When working within HAML (or Vue templates) we can add `data-track-*` attributes to elements of interest. All elements that have a `data-track-event` attribute will automatically have event tracking bound on clicks.
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| `data-track-value` | false | The `value` as described [in our Feature Instrumentation taxonomy](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/product/feature-instrumentation/#taxonomy). If omitted, this will be the elements `value` property or an empty string. For checkboxes, the default value will be the element's checked attribute or `false` when unchecked. |
| `data-track-context` | false | The `context` as described [in our Feature Instrumentation taxonomy](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/product/feature-instrumentation/#taxonomy). |
## Tracking within Vue components
### Tracking within Vue components
There's a tracking Vue mixin that can be used in components if more complex tracking is required. To use it, first import the `Tracking` library and request a mixin.
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</template>
```
## Tracking in raw JavaScript
### Tracking in raw JavaScript
Custom event tracking and instrumentation can be added by directly calling the `Tracking.event` static function. The following example demonstrates tracking a click on a button by calling `Tracking.event` manually.
......@@ -116,7 +118,7 @@ button.addEventListener('click', () => {
})
```
## Tests and test helpers
### Tests and test helpers
In Jest particularly in vue tests, you can use the following:
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});
});
```
## Backend tracking
GitLab provides `Gitlab::Tracking`, an interface that wraps the [Snowplow Ruby Tracker](https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow/wiki/ruby-tracker) for tracking custom events.
### Tracking in Ruby
Custom event tracking and instrumentation can be added by directly calling the `GitLab::Tracking.event` class method, which accepts the following arguments:
| argument | type | default value | description |
|:-----------|:-------|:---------------------------|:------------|
| `category` | string | 'application' | Area or aspect of the application. This could be `HealthCheckController` or `Lfs::FileTransformer` for instance. |
| `action` | string | 'generic' | The action being taken, which can be anything from a controller action like `create` to something like an Active Record callback. |
| `data` | object | {} | Additional data such as `label`, `property`, `value`, and `context` as described [in our Feature Instrumentation taxonomy](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/product/feature-instrumentation/#taxonomy). These will be set as empty strings if you don't provide them. |
Tracking can be viewed as either tracking user behavior, or can be utilized for instrumentation to monitor and visual performance over time in an area or aspect of code.
For example:
```ruby
class Projects::CreateService < BaseService
def execute
project = Project.create(params)
Gitlab::Tracking.event('Projects::CreateService', 'create_project',
label: project.errors.full_messages.to_sentence,
value: project.valid?
)
end
end
```
### Performance
We use the [AsyncEmitter](https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow/wiki/Ruby-Tracker#52-the-asyncemitter-class) when tracking events, which allows for instrumentation calls to be run in a background thread. This is still an active area of development.
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