Marcel, Dan and the Analytics team have completed a new feature for Wikimetrics, which just went live. 

Now, if you experience a report failure, instead of just seeing a message that says "FAILURE", you will see a button that you can click to re-run the report without leaving the page.

While not every error that leads to a failed report will be fixed by this feature, it should make it easier to recover from the database connectivity issue that many Wikimetrics users experienced earlier this year (and which some folks may still be experiencing intermittently). This issue resulted in a lot of wasted effort and frustration, since users had no choice but to start the report process all over again after each failure.

Database connectivity for Wikimetrics has improved since then--we only had 31 failed reports in April, down from 750 in January--but hopefully this new feature helps ameliorate the frustration of these outages, when they do occur.

Next up for Wikimetrics: allow users set shared parameters for multiple metrics reports (like start and end date) once, rather than having to do it for each metric individually. (Phabricator task)

Best,

Jonathan

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