I'm not sure why a beacon would have to be a dummy html file, thus confusing PV stats.
Could it not be a dummy image request, more in line with the one pixel images that are often used.
This way Oliver can relax, go on vacation for real, without keeping a close watch over PV definitions.
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Nuria & Erik: you're totally right, I keep forgetting this problem is more complicated than I think.
So we should figure out how this statsv magic thing works and see if we can use it here.
On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 4:41 PM, Nuria Ruiz nuria@wikimedia.org wrote:
[Oliver] My point was more that we should try to avoid traffic-generating
[Oliver] requests that exist solely as a hack for analytics purposes;
[Dan] Is this a potential solution to Oliver's concern:
I disagree we should be concern about "beacons" to identify preloads, just like beacons exist for ads or stats using one to identify preloads doesn't seem far fetched (certainly I have used similar code before and it did its job).
Note that EL works in a similar fashion requesting a "fake" image to varnish to which we answer with a 204. It is very similar and the reason why we have such a code is that we do not have a specific endpoint or domain where requests of this type could go. Everything requested by our users and ourselves ends up in varnish pretty much.
On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 12:46 PM, Dan Andreescu dandreescu@wikimedia.org wrote:
Is this a potential solution to Oliver's concern:
For "real" image views, add an X-Analytics header value of "real-view=true" to the request itself?
If that's not feasible, we should look into using statsv for this (not sure how that works) or having this be a different kafka topic and not consumed into HDFS.
On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 11:59 AM, Toby Negrin tnegrin@wikimedia.org wrote:
I created a card -- modify as desired:
-Toby
On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 8:51 AM, Toby Negrin tnegrin@wikimedia.org wrote:
It turns out that the media viewer (on desktop; don't know about mobile) does a lot of caching so just because an image is loaded from swift, it doesn't mean it is viewed. We'd like to provide more accurate stats to the GLAM folks, so yes, I think this needs to be added eventually. Let's leave it out of scope for now.
-Toby
On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 8:46 AM, Oliver Keyes okeyes@wikimedia.org wrote:
We want to include these files in the pageview definition? :/.
My point was more that we should try to avoid traffic-generating requests that exist solely as a hack for analytics purposes; it's artificial work for both users and us. If this is the only way of doing things that's totally fine.
On 5 February 2015 at 11:38, Toby Negrin tnegrin@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi Gergo -- I like this idea. As far as capacity, any EL-Hadoop based solution would be basically doing the same thing as you propose.
Can you please run it past ops (especially the 404 v 204) part?
Oliver -- the issue is that we'd like to figure out a way to provide accurate views of the media files; because of client side caching, we can't use the current requests. But your point is a good one -- we'll need to add this to the PV definition.
-Toby
On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 5:18 AM, Oliver Keyes okeyes@wikimedia.org wrote:
A nice theory, but if they appear in the webrequest table (presumably they would, and we're not creating an entirely new set of varnishes for the transmission of dummy images?) they have to be factored in. Again, however, the new definition automatically filters them by checking the webrequest source and MIME type, so this is not a problem, as I originally stated.
On 5 February 2015 at 08:10, Erik Zachte ezachte@wikimedia.org wrote:
Oliver, this is not about pageviews, but about media file views.
These will be collected and dumped separately, as per
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Media_file_request_count... .
Erik
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We would add a rule to Vagrant to make sure it does not try to look up such requests in Swift but returns a 404 immediately.
I bet ops would like it a lot better if this is a 204 and it kind of makes sense as it is the code used for beacons and such. Otherwise they might get alarms on 404s increasing.
On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 12:38 PM, Oliver Keyes okeyes@wikimedia.org wrote:
Not really; the new pageviews definition wouldn't include those files anyway. It seems silly, thought, be deliberately generating a large amount of automated noise and client requests for this :/.
On 4 February 2015 at 15:00, Gergo Tisza gtisza@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi all,
Erik Zachte is working on file view stats and is looking for a way to track Media Viewer image views (for which there is no 1:1 relation between server hits and actual image views); after some back and forth in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T86914 I proposed the following hack:
whenever the javascript code in MediaViewer determines that an image view happened (e.g. an image has been displayed for a certain amount of time), it makes a request to a certain fake image, say
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Virtual-imageview-<real image name>/<size>px-thumbnail.<ext> . These hits can than be easily filtered from the varnish request logs and added to the normal requests. We would add a rule to Vagrant to make sure it does not try to look up such requests in Swift but returns a 404 immediately.
This would be a temporary workaround until there is a proper way to log virtual image views, such as EventLogging with a non-SQL backend.
Do you see any fundamental problem with this?
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