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Wiki Usage Ping for Create SMAU

Alex Kalderimis requested to merge wiki-usage-pings into master

What does this MR do?

Add usage data, on the granularity of event counts, for the following action:

  • A user creates a new wiki page
  • A user edits an existing wiki page

These counts are then collected as part of the existing usage data under the following keys:

  • wiki_pages_created
  • wiki_pages_edited

Does this MR meet the acceptance criteria?

Conformity

Performance and testing

This adds a new redis call on each wiki page edit or creation. Redis is fast, much faster than writing rows to the DB, so the impact will be minimal. Ideally though, this would be best to be asynchronous. https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/telemetry/issues/61 is all about coming up with a common approach here, and so when that is closed, this mechanism may need to be updated.

Security

This exposes activity about feature usage to Redis. We already use this for infromation storage, and no personal identifying information is stored (we just maintain a monotonic counter), so this presents no additional security risks.

Related work:

This MR is based on https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/30850 by @fjsanpedro , which should be merged first.

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